<P>Dear gurus</P> <P>I've followed <A class="" href="http://www.benshoemate.com/2007/11/09/how-to-upload-all-your-old-archived-email-to-gmail-from-outlook-lotus-notes-and-unix-pine/" mce_href="http://www.benshoemate.com/2007/11/09/how-to-upload-all-your-old-archived-email-to-gmail-from-outlook-lotus-notes-and-unix-pine/">Ben Shoemate's guide</A> for uploading emails I have stored on my computer to my Gmail account. But I can't get it to work, even when I've carefully done exactly what the guide says I should do.</P> <P>All my emails reside in Thunderbird (latest version). I've installed Mercury 4.7. I have verified (by looking in Mercury's subfolder Mail in Windows Explorer) that my Thunderbird messages have been "copied" into Mercury.</P> <P>Following Ben's example, I created five "year" accounts (in both Thunderbird and Mercury) so that Gmail can POP3 in parallel from these accounts. I've made five corresponding POP3 connections in Gmail's settings and each such connection verifies when I create it. I have forwarded port 110 on my router to my local computer that Mercury is running on. When I do a send and receive from Thunderbird, it asks for the password for the relevant Mercury user. When I type it in, the password is accepted. However, I am unable to send any emails from my five Thunderbird accounts. Also, I cannot send messages from my ordinary Gmail account to any of the five Thunderbird accounts.</P> <P>In Mercury's POP3 Server, I can see that Gmail is connecting regularly from the five POP3 connections because the relevant connection with the Gmail IP address blinks for a second in the POP3 Server window. But the Server window as well as the Gmail Settings page both say that no messages are fetched. I did manage on one occasion to upload 19 messages from one of the accounts but why no other messages were uploaded, I don't know. At this time, the other four connections were also active and verified. </P> <P>In the posts on Ben's guide, it said that one could try using 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost but that didn't have any effect.</P> <P>Mercury has so many settings that I'm a little bit lost. But I've left everything as default upon installation. I installed all of the, I think they're called, modules. I'm using MercuryC instead of MercuryE and that appears to work because, as noted above, Gmail's connection attempts blink in the window. I've checked the logs but they only provide the same information that the POP3 Server window says, that is that a user X from IP so and so connected on date/time but that 0 messages were sent. </P> <P>Thunderbird has been running when I've tried to fetch the mail. Not sure if that's a requirement since the mail is also in Mercury's folder but just in case I left Thunderbird on.</P> <P>Has anybody tried to do this and could assist me?</P> <P>Thank you</P> <P>Philip</P>