How to Move Outlook 2003 Emails to Gmail

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As Google's signature email service GMail gains more popularity in the online e-mail market more and more people and businesses are switching over.
With the switch comes the question "what if I need to access my old emails stored in Outlook?". These easy to follow steps will help you move those old emails from Outlook 2003 into your GMail inbox.

• Steps

1. Once you have synchronized Outlook & Gmail as described elsewhere, go to your folder & select it. It will show you the number of entries you have eg 50.
2. Right click on that folder and select "copy folder ..XYZ."
   
   • A new pane appears Titled " Copy Folder ".
3. Scroll down to "imap.gmail.com"
4. Highlight "imap.gmail.com" then press New.
5. In Name inset new name eg " Important Things".
6. Press OK, Then OK.
   
   • Busy sign appears.
   • A pane with Microsoft Outlook appears showing copying from folder to folder.
   • IT SEEMS TO HANG, BUT WAIT (IF YOU HAVE LARGE FILES, IT WILL TAKE A LONG TIME).
   • At the bottom of the folder it will tell you the time left to download - you may think that the program has stalled - be patient.
7. After the Outlook window has finished go to your Gmail, you will find your transferred emails for that folder in "all mail".
   
   • In Labels - 2 folders will appear one with your new name plus your new name/and the folder name you transferred.
   • One folder(label) will have no conversations, the other will have all the files that you sent over.
   • You can delete the one with no conversations & then rename the other to whatever you want.
   Source: www.wikihow.com