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Thunderbird doesn't copy all files from imap to gmail

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joost2
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Hi,

I'm trying to migrate my e-mail from a regular IMAP server to Gmail. My gmail account is completely empty.

I added both accounts to Thunderbird. When I drag the files from a folder from my IMAP server to Gmail it starts copying. When it is finished is see that not all or hardly any of the files are copied. Say of a selection of 244 mails I only see 5.

What is going wrong?

Hi, I'm trying to migrate my e-mail from a regular IMAP server to Gmail. My gmail account is completely empty. I added both accounts to Thunderbird. When I drag the files from a folder from my IMAP server to Gmail it starts copying. When it is finished is see that not all or hardly any of the files are copied. Say of a selection of 244 mails I only see 5. What is going wrong?

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sfhowes
sfhowes
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IMAP isn't very good for transferring mail between servers or even from the local computer to the IMAP server, which you have seen with a relatively small number of messages. You might have better luck with having the gmail account collect mail from the other server:

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/21289?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en