Upload all your old mails to Gmail with correct time stamp

If you too belive that we can manage our lives with just a browser on the laptop/computer welcome in. There are lots of sites where we can store our data files like Photos, videos, xls and other documents which can be viewed online from anywhere. But this can not be accomplished with our old mails which we have accumulated over a period of time from different accounts.

Wouldn't it be great if we can upload all these mails to gmail and access them from any where. I do not have to tell you the robust search capabilities you get with google products. neverthless gmail is now about 3GB.

Unlike some other posts using this method you will get the correct timestamp as it was on the original message. Not the time uploaded to gmail. It is not very straight forward, but it does the job.

1. First we need to convert all our mails into mbox (Thunderbird) format. If you are using Outlook import them into Outlook Express before converting them to mbox format to avoid possible data errors on some mails.
2. Download and install Thunderbird and import all your Outlook Express folders into Thunder bird one folder at a time (Inbox,Sent, other custom folders if any)
3. Download and unzip Gmail Loader
4. Using Gmail Loader upload each folder (Inbox,Sent, other custom folders if any) one at a time to your gmail account. At this point if you login to your gmail account and check you will find all the mails but with Current Date and Time. Do not start cursing me we will fix this in the next step.
5. First Enable POP on your gmail account. (setting>>Forwarding and POP>>POP download>>Enable POP for all mail). And select "delete Gmail's copy".
6. Create an additional gmail account and pull all the mails from the original gmail account by adding the original gmail account. (setting>>Accounts>>Get mails from other accounts>>Add another mail account)
7. Now you can see the mails in the additional gmail account with correct, i.e original timestamp like a miracle. unbelievable stuff.
8. Now enable POP on your additional gmail account and from your original gmail account fetch them back by creating a new account in the settings. Before doing this last step make sure you emty your trash otherwise you will not get anything back

I strongly reccomend you to test the above steps with a folder of 5-10 mails and make sure everything works in your way before attemting to do in large numbers