I recently wrote a post about moving my MX records from pointing to Google Mail to point to Hotmail using Windows Live Community. Since then I have switched back as I liked the function of being able to check my email on my iPod Touch. I did try izzy mail which basically creates an IMAP route to your Hotmail.
Well last week I switched back, I did not close my account I just pointed my MX records elsewhere. Anyway there was about a 6 week gap in my email and I was wondering if there was a way to "Ingest" my Hotmail into Google Mail? In short you can import your email both inbox and sent items into Google Mail.
If you use a regular email account you can import your email from a pst file, however if you use a web based email and it supports IMAP then your almost there too.
I use Outlook 2007 to connect to my email and I connect to a variety of mail types:
- Exchange
- SMTP
- Hotmail
- IMAP
As I was using a Hotmail based email I had installed the Outlook Connector on my PC and that gave me MAPI access to my Hotmail.
I then downloaded the Google Email Uploader and installed it.
When you run the application you are prompted with your Google Mail logon
It is fairly straight forward after that, if you use Windows Vista you maybe prompted to unblock the application for the Windows Firewall. You will then be presented with a list of mail folders, and you can select the folders you want to import into Google Mail.
