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davidmaxwaterma · 26 Jan 2018, 08:28 PM

Hi,

I plan on spending a lot of time in China. I've previously been using a vpn to access my gmail via inbox, and it's worked ok, but they're trying to stop people using vpns, so I am trying to move (back) to fastmail.

NB, when using 'inbox', I almost never 'delete'd message, and just 'archive'd them.

So far, I did an 'import', and then tidied up a lot of junk; followed by setting up a pop3 retrieval from gmail to fastmail.

It seems to be quite a tedious process. Each day, I see that my inbox is full of junk from many years ago, along with some new stuff. So, I 'process' the new messages (usually just deleting them/etc), and then 'select all' and archive. Once I've done that, I then go into 'folders' and try to 'remove duplicates' from the 'archive', so that it doesn't get too full...I seem to be around 65% full ~10GB.

It does seems to be quite a 'never ending' process....and I'm kind of wondering if I am in some kind of 'loop'.

Is there a better way?

Max.

26 Jan 2018, 08:28 PM	#1
davidmaxwaterma Essential Contributor Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: BeiJing, PRC Posts: 291	best way to move from gmail/inbox to fastmail? Hi, I plan on spending a lot of time in China. I've previously been using a vpn to access my gmail via inbox, and it's worked ok, but they're trying to stop people using vpns, so I am trying to move (back) to fastmail. NB, when using 'inbox', I almost never 'delete'd message, and just 'archive'd them. So far, I did an 'import', and then tidied up a lot of junk; followed by setting up a pop3 retrieval from gmail to fastmail. It seems to be quite a tedious process. Each day, I see that my inbox is full of junk from many years ago, along with some new stuff. So, I 'process' the new messages (usually just deleting them/etc), and then 'select all' and archive. Once I've done that, I then go into 'folders' and try to 'remove duplicates' from the 'archive', so that it doesn't get too full...I seem to be around 65% full ~10GB. It does seems to be quite a 'never ending' process....and I'm kind of wondering if I am in some kind of 'loop'. Is there a better way? Max.