Copy old emails to Gmail from Outlook 2003
If you have your old emails stored in Outlook 2003 you will probably want to copy them to Gmail. This will make the emails available to any client you synchronize with Gmail.
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For the special folders (Inbox, Sent Items/Mail, Drafts, Trash, Spam and Starred) you have to select all the emails in the folder and drag them to the corresponding folder under your new My Mail (IMAP) account.
Or if you want to copy emails to a folder with a different name you also need to select all the emails in the original folder and drag them into the new folder.
Hint! Ctrl + A selects all emails in the current folder.
For folders you have created yourself (i.e. not the Inbox etc.) you can copy the entire folder from your old email account to your new email account.
Follow these steps:
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Right click on the folder you want to copy and click on Copy ”Old emails”.
Your folder name will not be “old emails” obviously.
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Select your new email account. For John this is My Mail (IMAP).
Click OK.
From our testing of Outlook 2010, it appears that Microsoft has ironed out many of the issues we found in Outlook 2007 and 2003. We recommend you consider upgrading to Outlook 2010.



