Comments on: Migrated from Yahoo Mail to GMail http://trevinchow.com/blog/2007/05/14/migrated-from-yahoo-mail-to-gmail/ Microsoft Group Program Manager and Seattle Photographer Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:57:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Trevin http://trevinchow.com/blog/2007/05/14/migrated-from-yahoo-mail-to-gmail/comment-page-1/#comment-4205 Trevin Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:07:24 +0000 http://trevinchow.com/blog/2007/05/14/migrated-from-yahoo-mail-to-gmail/#comment-4205 <strong>Adam:</strong> I don't know of a way to bring the folders over unfortunately, nor match them up to labels. Fortunately I didn't have that problem to deal with, but good luck :) Adam: I don’t know of a way to bring the folders over unfortunately, nor match them up to labels. Fortunately I didn’t have that problem to deal with, but good luck :)

]]> By: Adam Fitzer http://trevinchow.com/blog/2007/05/14/migrated-from-yahoo-mail-to-gmail/comment-page-1/#comment-4204 Adam Fitzer Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:33:37 +0000 http://trevinchow.com/blog/2007/05/14/migrated-from-yahoo-mail-to-gmail/#comment-4204 Trevin, Thanks for your article. It still holds true today even if it is 2 years old. I just migrated from Yahoo to Gmail after some recent frustration on my personal e-mail. I was able to use your suggestion and pull over my INBOX e-mails using the POP3 setup. However, I wanted to know if you know a way to get your Yahoo Folders to come over and either match them up with your Gmail Labels, or manually back them up and bring them over. I have a few hundred e-mails in about 10 folders and DO NOT want to bring them all over via the inbox and then have to sift through them all. It would take me quite a while. Let me know if you have any ideas. Thanks- Adam Trevin, Thanks for your article. It still holds true today even if it is 2 years old. I just migrated from Yahoo to Gmail after some recent frustration on my personal e-mail. I was able to use your suggestion and pull over my INBOX e-mails using the POP3 setup. However, I wanted to know if you know a way to get your Yahoo Folders to come over and either match them up with your Gmail Labels, or manually back them up and bring them over. I have a few hundred e-mails in about 10 folders and DO NOT want to bring them all over via the inbox and then have to sift through them all. It would take me quite a while. Let me know if you have any ideas.

Thanks-
Adam

]]> By: elinus liga http://trevinchow.com/blog/2007/05/14/migrated-from-yahoo-mail-to-gmail/comment-page-1/#comment-3435 elinus liga Mon, 29 Dec 2008 16:27:56 +0000 http://trevinchow.com/blog/2007/05/14/migrated-from-yahoo-mail-to-gmail/#comment-3435 Thank you so much for your personal views and insights. yeah... it really helps me deciding to switch from yahoo mail (which I have been using for 10 years) to gmail. May be not now. Thank you so much for your personal views and insights.
yeah… it really helps me deciding to switch from yahoo mail (which I have been using for 10 years) to gmail. May be not now.

]]> By: Jim Sowers http://trevinchow.com/blog/2007/05/14/migrated-from-yahoo-mail-to-gmail/comment-page-1/#comment-2926 Jim Sowers Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:27:08 +0000 http://trevinchow.com/blog/2007/05/14/migrated-from-yahoo-mail-to-gmail/#comment-2926 @me -- never mind -- I answered my own question ;-) @me — never mind — I answered my own question ;-)

]]> By: Jim Sowers http://trevinchow.com/blog/2007/05/14/migrated-from-yahoo-mail-to-gmail/comment-page-1/#comment-2925 Jim Sowers Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:03:26 +0000 http://trevinchow.com/blog/2007/05/14/migrated-from-yahoo-mail-to-gmail/#comment-2925 Hi Trevin, I am going through the same process. I too have a lot of email on Yahoo, but I leave it on the Yahoo server. I wasn't clear when you wrote, "Turns out that since I’m a Yahoo premium subscriber, they unlock the POP3 interface for me. Gmail provided a really easy way for me to specify my Yahoo credentials and all my email was imported over the course of a few hours as it processed it in chunks of several hundred emails." I am also a premium subscriber, but don't understand the migration process here. Do I need to first download all my email via POP3 to Outlook or Thunderbird, and then upload it via IMAP?? Thanks, Jim Hi Trevin,

I am going through the same process. I too have a lot of email on Yahoo, but I leave it on the Yahoo server. I wasn’t clear when you wrote,

“Turns out that since I’m a Yahoo premium subscriber, they unlock the POP3 interface for me. Gmail provided a really easy way for me to specify my Yahoo credentials and all my email was imported over the course of a few hours as it processed it in chunks of several hundred emails.”

I am also a premium subscriber, but don’t understand the migration process here. Do I need to first download all my email via POP3 to Outlook or Thunderbird, and then upload it via IMAP??

Thanks,
Jim

]]> By: Trevin http://trevinchow.com/blog/2007/05/14/migrated-from-yahoo-mail-to-gmail/comment-page-1/#comment-2495 Trevin Sun, 20 Apr 2008 08:51:20 +0000 http://trevinchow.com/blog/2007/05/14/migrated-from-yahoo-mail-to-gmail/#comment-2495 <b>Austin:</b> Not sure why you're getting duplicate emails. When Gmail downloads messages via POP3 interface, by default it will delete the messages. Make sure that you do not have "Leave a copy of retrieved message on the server" enabled in your Gmail settings for your yahoo account. Regarding Gmail's IMAP interface, I don't personally use it so can't give you any advice. Sorry! Austin:

Not sure why you’re getting duplicate emails. When Gmail downloads messages via POP3 interface, by default it will delete the messages. Make sure that you do not have “Leave a copy of retrieved message on the server” enabled in your Gmail settings for your yahoo account.

Regarding Gmail’s IMAP interface, I don’t personally use it so can’t give you any advice. Sorry!

]]> By: Austin http://trevinchow.com/blog/2007/05/14/migrated-from-yahoo-mail-to-gmail/comment-page-1/#comment-2494 Austin Sun, 20 Apr 2008 05:47:03 +0000 http://trevinchow.com/blog/2007/05/14/migrated-from-yahoo-mail-to-gmail/#comment-2494 Trevin, thanks for a really informative well-written article. BTW, I am Yahoo Premium subscriber. I have had so may problems with Yahoo mail. The final straw was when it started spewing 3 month old emails into my bulk folder and then more emails into my Blackberry device. So a couple of days ago I set up a gmail account, and asked Gmail to download my message via yahoo's POP3. It did it only for new emails, but then Yahoo started sending it duplicates of old emails. Then I head Gmail's IMAP servers were acting up, so that new email would not appear on my Blackberry. Aagh! Any advice you have would be most welcome. Thanks in advance. Austin. Trevin, thanks for a really informative well-written article. BTW, I am Yahoo Premium subscriber. I have had so may problems with Yahoo mail. The final straw was when it started spewing 3 month old emails into my bulk folder and then more emails into my Blackberry device. So a couple of days ago I set up a gmail account, and asked Gmail to download my message via yahoo’s POP3. It did it only for new emails, but then Yahoo started sending it duplicates of old emails. Then I head Gmail’s IMAP servers were acting up, so that new email would not appear on my Blackberry. Aagh! Any advice you have would be most welcome. Thanks in advance.
Austin.

]]> By: Sync Google Calendar and Outlook http://trevinchow.com/blog/2007/05/14/migrated-from-yahoo-mail-to-gmail/comment-page-1/#comment-2335 Sync Google Calendar and Outlook Tue, 11 Mar 2008 04:28:20 +0000 http://trevinchow.com/blog/2007/05/14/migrated-from-yahoo-mail-to-gmail/#comment-2335 [...] to my reliance on Exchange I’ve never jumped on the Google Calendar bandwagon despite using Gmail for my personal email.  Google Calendar is a great product, but the last thing I want to do is [...] [...] to my reliance on Exchange I’ve never jumped on the Google Calendar bandwagon despite using Gmail for my personal email.  Google Calendar is a great product, but the last thing I want to do is [...]

]]> By: Trevin http://trevinchow.com/blog/2007/05/14/migrated-from-yahoo-mail-to-gmail/comment-page-1/#comment-2320 Trevin Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:03:09 +0000 http://trevinchow.com/blog/2007/05/14/migrated-from-yahoo-mail-to-gmail/#comment-2320 Sandra, if you already are a Yahoo Premium subscriber, you can get Gmail to download those messages via POP3. Have you tried that? Sandra, if you already are a Yahoo Premium subscriber, you can get Gmail to download those messages via POP3. Have you tried that?

]]> By: Sandra Toro http://trevinchow.com/blog/2007/05/14/migrated-from-yahoo-mail-to-gmail/comment-page-1/#comment-2318 Sandra Toro Wed, 05 Mar 2008 22:02:16 +0000 http://trevinchow.com/blog/2007/05/14/migrated-from-yahoo-mail-to-gmail/#comment-2318 Thanks four all your tips. I've also decided to move from Yahoo to Gmail after 5 years. Miss my folders! More than a comment, I have a question on Yahoo Premium and folders. I have valuable information on 2000 plus emails in my folders. By Info I mean messages, not attachments. I need to save them and do not have the time to arhaically go message by message, copying info, pasting it into Word documents. And I must have them in my computer. So, I do not want to FF to my new Gmail account. Does this makes sense? I need to migrate my folders, which I realize are not real folders, to my Documents in my computer. Please help. Thanks four all your tips. I’ve also decided to move from Yahoo to Gmail after 5 years. Miss my folders!
More than a comment, I have a question on Yahoo Premium and folders.
I have valuable information on 2000 plus emails in my folders. By Info I mean messages, not attachments. I need to save them and do not have the time to arhaically go message by message, copying info, pasting it into Word documents. And I must have them in my computer. So, I do not want to FF to my new Gmail account. Does this makes sense?
I need to migrate my folders, which I realize are not real folders, to my Documents in my computer. Please help.

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