For the last 18 months I have been using MobileMe and Gmail together. I give out my Gmail address publicly, but then have all my email forwarded to MobileMe and use that as my primary email access account.
However, I'm unhappy with the SPAM filtering on MobileMe so I want to reverse this process, i.e. use Gmail as my primary mail account and have MM email forwarded to Gmail.
I have stored a copy of every message I've received (via Gmail or MobileMe) for the past 18 months on the MM server. I just downloaded all of those messages to Mail on OS X. That means I can now access my email archive when I'm at home.
But I also want to be able to access those messages through the Gmail web interface. Obviously, many of them are already there, since 80% of the email I receive came through Gmail. But 20% of it was sent directly to my MM account. I have no idea which are which, so the only way I can see to preserve my entire archive is to upload all of the messages from my local Mail app. (that I just downloaded from MM) to my Gmail account.
Is that possible? Will the mailbox names be converted into labels? What happens with duplicate messages? Will there just be two copies of those, or is Gmail "intelligent" enough not to duplicate a message that is already on the server?
However, I'm unhappy with the SPAM filtering on MobileMe so I want to reverse this process, i.e. use Gmail as my primary mail account and have MM email forwarded to Gmail.
I have stored a copy of every message I've received (via Gmail or MobileMe) for the past 18 months on the MM server. I just downloaded all of those messages to Mail on OS X. That means I can now access my email archive when I'm at home.
But I also want to be able to access those messages through the Gmail web interface. Obviously, many of them are already there, since 80% of the email I receive came through Gmail. But 20% of it was sent directly to my MM account. I have no idea which are which, so the only way I can see to preserve my entire archive is to upload all of the messages from my local Mail app. (that I just downloaded from MM) to my Gmail account.
Is that possible? Will the mailbox names be converted into labels? What happens with duplicate messages? Will there just be two copies of those, or is Gmail "intelligent" enough not to duplicate a message that is already on the server?