infoworld.com — Google took a giant step on Friday to make it easier for companies to migrate any e-mail system over to Google Apps Gmail by offering an E-mail Migration API targeted at corporate developers and e-mail administrators. Find the API details here: http://code.google.com/apis/apps/email_migration/developers_guide_protocol.htm
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nev9Nov 17, 2007
Gmail should be importing into outlook. not the other way around
bamborzledNov 17, 2007
And your spam filter "reads" your emails as well.
malakinNov 17, 2007
What I needed was a utility to export Thunderbird address book entries to a CSV format that Gmail will actually import properly. I spent a couple hours using mostly trial and error to figure out what CVS headers put what items where and came up with a set of headers that cover all the important stuff. I still can't get it to put the City, State, and Zip into the little boxes for them, but I can get them into the location box at least. It looks like you need to modify your source CSV and put some of this information in quotes with commas in them to fill those boxes (too much manual work for large address books), so there may be no simple header that will do this.Thunderbird is one of the most popular email clients. It would probably take a Google engineer only a few hours to modify their contact import function so that it supports CSVs from Thunderbird.Why is importing address books from Thunderbird not supported?For anyone who stumbles upon this post while Googling for a solution to this, here is my current list of headers that you can overwrite in Thunderbird's exported address book CSV:First Name,Last Name,Name,Nickname,E-mail Address,E-mail 2 Address,Business Phone,Home Phone,Business Fax,Pager,Mobile Phone,Home Street,Home Street 2,Home City,Home State,Home ZipCode,Home Country,Business Street,Business Street 2,Business City,Business State,Business Zip,Business Country,Job Title,Department,Company,Web Page 1,Web Page 2,Birth Year,Birth Month,Birth Day,Custom 1,Custom 2,Custom 3,Custom 4,NotesJust replace the commas with tabs and you can paste it right into your spreadsheet as the headers (the first row of the CSV exported from Thunderbird's address book).
Closed AccountNov 18, 2007
I am an avid Thunderbird user for my several personal domain email accounts, however, I also have 2 Gmail accounts that I have POPed to Thunderbird. I totally agree that Gmail is by far the best email platform available at the moment.
nemisisxNov 18, 2007
If you have domain (e.g myname@at mydomain .com ) email hosted on a remote server , with unknown admins ( shared or dedicated hosting ) then those emails, sent or received are not private and can be read ( a matter of trust ) - no privacy at all on the internet .
bingeboyNov 18, 2007
Someone tell google how to render html in messages please! Coding mailers is a nightmare.
monkchipsNov 19, 2007
"And then one day Google decides that Gmail and Google Apps is no longer free. I don't think I'd want to be the IT guy on the receiving end of that disaster." - that's what Google Docs, the per pay offer, is for....