A Wonderful Outlook-Gmail Archive Solution
Fri, Dec 26, 14Wed, Dec 17, 14 By: Andy CampbellProject & Time Management
Being a Mac OS person workingin a Windows dominated office environment is not always easy. Mac versions of software written for Windows machines are rarely great. It is a challenge to keep my workflow smooth while using a Mac as my main machine at the office.
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In my former job, we usedKerio Connectfor our email services. Kerio saves the organization a healthy amount of money when compared to Microsoft’s Exchange, butwith those savings come somebig challenges.
Not specifically due toKerio, but a challenge in the workplace nonetheless, is emailstorage space. Our IT department gave usa downright meager 175mb of email storage. This makes searching old emails on any machine except the one hard-wired to the wall in my office, completely impossible. This is a big problem for a job that is so reliant on email as the primary means of communication.
The bulk of emails I receive are stored on a machine that is inside the building, connected to a closed network. I could remote connect to my machine but that is glacially slow. I could manually archive these emails, create a .zip file of the archive, place it on a USB stick or perhaps in a Dropbox folder, and then copy that file to my Mac, but that is a lot of work to keep up with.
Simply put, I want all of my email together in one place, I want my work email to behave like my personal Gmail account does. Everything is searchable, all of the time. I want it all to be searchable, and I want the storage quota my work’s email account to remain low. I want the comforts and convenience of using Gmail in the workplace while continuing to conform to what my IT Department sanctions as acceptable forms of email.
I needed a solution this summer, and thankfully I found one. What you need isOutlook 2011 for Mac and a fresh Gmail account.
Here’s how to create your own searchable archive of all your work email.
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Step 1
On your Mac, open Outlook 2011. You will be prompted to add an account.
Click on ‘Exchange or Office 365’ and enter your work account’s information.
Steps 2 and 3
Once your main email is installed, or if you have already have your work account activated, navigate to Outlook’s preferences.
Steps 4 and 5
Click ‘Accounts’ and then click on the small ‘+’ symbol in the lower right hand corner of the ‘Accounts’ window. Add your new Gmail account here.
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Step 6
I suggest a setting up fresh Gmail account, even if you already use Gmail. This insures the archive of messages you are about to create is separated from your personal emails. If you are a Gmail label and filter wizard, and want to combine work and personal emails, more power to you.
Here’s where the fun starts!
While in your work email’s Inbox, create a new folder called ‘Archive’. This is where you will place emails that you want to move out of your Inbox, but you want to keep searchable. This keeps your storage quota down but retains the functionality of all the email being there in your work’s email. Navigate to your work email’s Inbox and select all of the messages you’d like to archive. Drag those emails to the new ‘Archive’ folder to move them out of the main Inbox.
This next step is where your personal email handling habits will come in to play. Personally, I like to keep a clean Inbox. If an email is in my Inbox, it needs to be acted upon. Once I’ve acted upon an email, I move it out of the Inbox and into a folder for keeping. Since I implemented this Outlook/Gmail partnership, I have moved nearly everything to the Archive folder and I now keep 7 folders in my work account.
Once you are ready to see that magic happen, navigate to the ‘Archive’ folder, command-A for select-all, and drag all of that selected email to the Gmail Inbox.
Once you are ready to see that magic happen, navigate to the ‘Archive’ folder, command-A for select-all, and drag all of that selected email to the Gmail Inbox.
Immediately following you’ll see the window pop up that shows the upload process.
Note: This upload process is very slow. Depending on the numberof emails you are uploading and your internet connection’s upload speeds, it can take several hours.
For a frame of reference; I had 95mbps down/95 mbps up connection at the officeand uploading 500 emails took 2-3 hours. Your mileage willvary.
I recommendhaving a cup of Aeropress prepared coffee while you wait.
When the upload process is complete, and you have confirmed the emails are in the Gmail Inbox, feel free to delete the emails from the ‘Archive’ folder in your work email. Enjoy the sweet relief of a nearly empty email account.
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I’ll write up how to set up this Gmail account on mobile devices in another post, but for now, if you follow these steps you’ll have all of your email searchable wherever you have your Mac and a connection to the internet.
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