Gmail Archiver 1.7 - Gmail Add-On

Gmail Archiver is a simple but useful and effective Perl script that helps you migrate your archived emails from an IMAP account or mbox files to Gmail in one go. Since Gmail Archiver does not talk to Gmail directly so you still have to archive and tag the forwarded mail manually.

With its gigabyte of mail storage, Gmail is a great, easily searchable and potentially pretty safe place to keep your archived emails. But what if you already have an email archive, locally in mbox files or at an IMAP server? The Gmail Archiver offers some help.

Gmail Archiver is a straight forward Perl script that collects messages from IMAP folders, mbox files and even mailnam mailing list archives to be sent to your Gmail account (or any other email address). Using several arguments, you can tell Gmail Archiver which messages to fetch, and you can give a prefix for the Subject of the emails as they are forwarded to Gmail. You can, for example, prefix all messages from a mailing list with the list's name, which should make sorting and finding them later easier.

Unfortunately, Gmail Archiver does only forward and not directly insert messages into the Gmail system, so you still have to manually archive and maybe label them. Still, Gmail Archiver is a pretty cool hack that makes migrating your old messages to Gmail a relatively painless endeavor.