Without much fanfare Gmail’s Mail Fetcher service now appears to be available on Google Apps for Domain accounts. Google also lifted the restriction of not allowing to fetch mail from other gmail accounts (although Help does not indicate it yet).
This is pretty significant: if you’re like me, you may have opened several gmail accounts, and as the gmail service matured, you may have realized that with all the labels, search, etc. you really are better off consolidating all those into one (OK, two
) accounts. Now it’s possible; in fact while I’m typing this, Mail Fetcher is happily consolidating my Gmail accounts. Of course the beauty of the process that for the first time my PC isn’t brought to a death-crawl while doing such housekeeping chores: it’s all happening in the cloud!
And a bonus: if you – like me – had already created a gmail archive of all your past email using the Thunderbird redirect trick, you probably noticed that gmail displayed the forward date, not the original send date. Mail fetcher now fixes all that – random checking now shows emails from 1997 in my archive.
Happy Fetching!
Update: Fetching is a slow process… at this rate it will be days or weeks. Apparently the more it fetches, the more remains (and I know the real number is in the thousands):
- Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 5:27 PM 200 mails fetched. 267 mails remaining.
- Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 4:27 PM 200 mails fetched. 235 mails remaining.
- Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 3:26 PM 200 mails fetched. 225 mails remaining.
- Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 1:53 PM 200 mails fetched. 155 mails remaining.
- Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 12:29 PM 200 mails fetched. 123 mails remaining.
fantastic!! Thanks so much for picking up on this Zoli. I had two full Gmail accounts and I was always going back from my Google Apps account into gmail to search old emails. It’ll be brilliant to have them all in one mailbox now.
How to import your Gmail accounts into your Google Apps 10GB mailbox
One word: awesome. Thanks to Oli Zerdos for picking up on this.
I had two full Gmail accounts and I was always going back from my Google Apps account into gmail to search old emails. It’ll be brilliant to have them all in one mailbox now.
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When I try this, it shows a red error message that says “Cannot fetch from gmail accounts”.
This is the UK though. So perhaps it’s that, or maybe I’m just doing it wrong.
If i want to fetch my mails i get the following error message.
Server returned error: “You can’t fetch mail from Gmail accounts”
I also am getting
Server returned error: “You can’t fetch mail from Gmail accounts”
Did they go back and restrict this feature again or has someone figured out another solution?
Found some other people who solved the problem. Instead of using the standard setting you need to use:
pop.googlemail.com ssl 995 instead of pop.gmail.com ssl 995
Other said to use smtp.gmail.com but that wasn’t working for me but it might for others. Finally one person ping’ed the pop.gmail.com sever and just used the IP address.
Hope this helps
awesome, thanks! 🙂
hi, how do you fetch only mail with a specific label?
thanks
The localized versions (e.g. Hungarian) of GMail not always have the Mail Fetcher feature. If you don’t find the “Get mail from other accounts” section on the Accounts tab, try to change the interface language. It worths!
PS: Many thanks to Zoli for the post!
How have you dealt with importing/exporting labels and filters? Does Fetcher do this automatically?