Gmail – How to transfer emails from Outlook to Gmail

The Data Liberation Front is a quasi-independent effort at Google to help you free your data if you desire.

It's easy to use a different email reading program with Gmail using either IMAP or POP, or to get all your mail out to take to a different provider. Go to the Settings page (link at top right of Gmail page), Forwarding and POP/IMAP tab.

IMHO, the easiest way is to use the IMAP functionality of Gmail.

1. Enable IMAP on Gmail
2. Configure Outlook on your computer to handle your Gmail account (see Google Help)
3. Sync your mailboxes. Gmail will create a folder for each label
4. Create a new Outlook PST
5. Move (or Copy) all the mails you want (from the folder of the wanted label) to your .PST