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Mail Importer for Gmail
Mail Importer for Gmail is an open source project from Google that uploads the
contents of a Thunderbird mail archive to Gmail, doing its best to preserve the
read state, flagged state, and folders of the messages. It is written in Java
and uses Messages.import
endpoint.
Clone the GitHub repository to get
the full source code, or simply browse the
Gmail-related code.
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Last updated 2024-09-03 UTC.
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