Gmail Tools

Pop Goes the Gmail

A program that sits between the http://gmail.com web server and your email client, converting messages from web format into POP3 format that a program such as Outlook Express or Thunderbird can understand.

Google GMail Loader (GML)
Import your existing email into GMail!

The GMail Loader is a graphical, cross-platform, Python based utility that supports two mBox formats (Netscape, Mozilla, Thunderbird, Most Other Clients), MailDir (Qmail, others), MMDF (Mutt), MH (NMH), and Babyl (Emacs RMAIL).

Tim Commer's OSX Applescript
Makes using GML much easier on OSX.

gExodus
This application was designed to include some of the original features of GML but include a GUI.  It only includes support for mBox files.

GTray
Lives in your system tray and alerts you to pending GMails.

Basically, for those of you that are not ashamed to admitting they use Microsoft Windows and Internet Explorer, GTray, will open a browser window and log you directly into your specified Gmail account.

GCount
Lives on your Mac and alerts you to pending GMails.

GetMail For Hotmail v2.4
Hotmail and MSN to Gmail forwarding.

GMailCompose

Makes mailto: links load a google mail compose window and adds a GMailCompose link to the context menu. Based on G-Mailto specs. (Firefox/Mozilla Suite/Netscape 7.x)

Trevor Harmon's mBox Cleaner
Fixes pesky mBox files created in Mozilla or Thunderbird, and good for double checking others as well. Included are both the source and the compiled version.

ReadPST

This application may be able to directly convert your Outlook PST files into mBox files GML can use. It's a command line utility, execute readpst.exe for instructions.

DBXConv
Can convert DBX files (from Microsoft Outlook Express) into mBox format.

GMail Notifier

For FireFox/Mozilla, adds an icon to your toolbar that keeps you updated on the number of GMails you have waiting.

G-Mailto
Rewrites any mailto link on a web page so that it sends using your GMail account and not your local mail client.

G-Mailto for Mac
Same as above, but works on computers with pretty apples on them.

GMail Compose
Adds a context menu to Firefox that lets you right click a mailto link and compose a new GMail.

G-Mailto Bookmarklet
Launch a new GMail with a bookmark!

PST Reader
Can convert PST files (from Microsoft Outlook) into mBox format.

GetMail
Auto-Forwards Hotmail messages to GMail.

YoSucker
Makes it possible to access your Yahoo! Mail using a POP3 client. Some have successfully used this application to download their Yahoo! Mail and then re-upload it with GML.

Using GMail For Backup
PHP script that can be used to backup files to Gmail and then quickly retrieve them back if and when you need them.