Moving rules from Outlook to Gmail

[csdude55]

My office manager has close to 100 rules set up in her Outlook. I've been trying to move her over to Gmail's IMAP instead of using a POP through the server, but it's too much trouble to rewrite all of those filters so she's never done it.

Can you guys and gals suggest a way to import all of those rules to Gmail without manually writing each of them?

[tangor]

Not a clue ... don't use gmail so do not know if there is an import function or not ... and not even sure if rule base is even similar in nature.

Won't ask why ... though it an established email address I PERSONALLY would leave it alone unless there is a compelling reason to make the change.

[csdude55]

It wouldn't be changing the actual email address, I would just forward her email on the server to the Gmail address. Then in Outlook or whatever, the account is set up to show the domain's email address as the "From" while using Gmail's SMTP server. So it's invisible to the recipient.

The biggest reason right now would be that it would make moving to a new computer easier... no transfer of 8G of emails, you just log in to Gmail and you're good to go.

But long term, it would let her use any of her 3 devices at her convenience. It helped ME a lot to switch over, and I'm convinced it would help her, too. Plus, most of the emails are generated by the server, and this would take some stress off of it.

[tangor]

Me? I want control over my emails (pop3) and leave NOTHING on a third party, even my own!

</adjusting the tin foil to a more s#*$!y rake>

[tangor]

REALLY? Should send that off to the other thread as an example of unexpected profanity!

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[csdude55]

Another advantage I failed to mention... we all share moderating responsibilities, so I email things that are posted to a shared account. If everyone would just IMAP in then we could see what's already been reviewed and not waste time double-dipping.

I initially started using Gmail because I have a very hard time getting emails to go to clients that use Gmail; if I use the word "ad", "banner", "advertise", etc, it goes to their spam folder. But how do I reply to someone that's interested in advertising without using any of those words! By using Gmail as the SMTP, it seems to go through more often. Not every time, but more often.