tip
- 2010-03-24
Try exporting your gmail to Thunderbird 3, free mail client. Download here: http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/ (an application by the same creators of firefox browser)
How to here:
http://www.ehow.com/how_2272847_import-gmail-contacts-mozilla-thunderbird.html
http://email.about.com/od/mozillathunderbirdtips/qt/et_gmail_addr.htm
Notes:
- You can also export your gmail to MS Outlook (no Outllook Epress).
- No possible with free Yahoo mail. Paid Yahoo mail ok.
Good luck!
englishgibson
- 2010-03-24
email troubles have officially started as it looks. i can't send emails to googlemail.com anymore :(
cheers and beers to rational solutions on the issue
englishgibson
- 2010-03-24
dave, i hear ya. i too am worried about my canadian yahoo email. google's hong kong move is probably testing the "ONE COUNTRY TWO SYSTEMS" setup. i think it's a pretty smart move by the executives there, but what do i know :)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100323/ap_on_hi_te/as_china_google_companies
out of the link above:
China Mobile, the world's largest phone company by subscribers, with more than 500 million accounts, could find its partnership with Google for mobile search services in danger, analysts at brokerage CLSA said in a recent report.
cheers and beers to partnerships and politics :)
To those who have not yet heard, Google has closed its Chinese website and is now channelling ALL its e-mails through Google servers in Hong Kong. They are not censoring their material and they say that what they are doing is entirely within Chinese law.
I know little about Chinese law in such matters as this, but my belief is that it is simply a matter of time before the Chinese retaliate in such a way as to effectively block access to all Google material within China including that which originates overseas. Thus, everyone in China, who is using Gmail or Googlemail Accounts whether opened in China or not, should take precautions to protect their lists of contacts by exporting them into some other application - such as Microsoft Excel - but though this can be done, it is neither quick nor easy unless you are a computer geek. There is no way of mass export of email messages held in your Google system so any that you wish to retain must be forwarded one at a time to some other e-mail account or cut and pasted one by one into Microsoft Word or something similar.
I may be wrong of course, in which case you (and I for that matter) will have wasted time. But what if I am right? What if we all wake up one morning soon, to find that our Google e-mail systems are irrevocably blocked and we have lost all our contacts and important messages?
Dave