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I'm trying to move my 12+ years of email to one cloud account on outlook.com for ubiquitous access and searchability. It's scattered in 10+ accounts in a Thunderbird client. About 40.000 msgs.
I've tried the usually recommended method of transferring using IMAP, but it times out after a varying number of messages. Sometimes it will do up to 800, other times 20. This way it will take me days of manually selecting a few at a time and checking they got through OK.
Can't seem to pinpoint the problem. I've tried to do the same with gmail (although I don't want to transition to gmail) and it seems to have the same issue.
Any suggestions most welcome!!
Why do you need 12 years of email from 10 accounts consolidated into one email address? You haven't mentioned where the other accounts reside (imap vs pop vs exchange), just that you have them on your local machine already. Why not sort through the useful bits and consolidate them into a mailbox or file that you could put on dropbox or (AND) a flash drive? – Raystafarian – 2015-02-20T14:20:29.057
Hi
Thx for reply. The email is all downloaded to TB from a mix of POP, IMAP and exchange (using davmail) accounts.
I wanted good search capabilities. Sifting through and consolidating all the emails would take me forever, so am looking for a less involved bulk procedure.
Plus, I'm looking to cancel many of the accounts as it's just too much maintenance, but would like access to the old stuff from work etc. – user3485763 – 2015-02-20T14:59:47.283
You could throw them all into PDF with OCR. – Raystafarian – 2015-02-20T15:00:32.513