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# Gmail musings.
- URL: https://kudithipudi.org/gmail-musings/
- Published: 2006-06-22T16:00:40.000Z
- Updated: 2006-06-22T16:00:40.000Z
- Description: I have been maintaining my @kudithipudi.org address for some time now. I had all my E-mail from 1998 saved on my laptop until I had a...
- Author: admin
- Tags: Networking, Technology, Uncategorized, Web, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-08-23 02:32

I have been maintaining my @kudithipudi.org address for some time now. I had all my E-mail from 1998 saved on my laptop until I had a hard drive disaster (**ALWAYS BACKUP YOUR DATA**), and lost all that E-mail. Ever since then, I have been trying to come up with a method to make my E-mail “crash” proof. I could have moved to using any of the popular free mail platforms ([hotmail](http://www.hotmail.com/?ref=kudithipudi.org), [yahoo](http://www.yahoo.com/?ref=kudithipudi.org), [gmail](http://gmail.google.com/?ref=kudithipudi.org) etc.), but I didn’t want to loose the ability to send E-mail from my personal @kudithipudi.org address.

Google to the rescue – I was checking the settings on gmail the other day and noticed that I could setup a different E-mail address (which has to be verified) as my default “from address”. So I started forwarding E-mail from my domain to gmail. The problem now was to upload all the E-mail I have in Thunderbird up to gmail. That way, I would have all my E-mail in one single place and allow me to search through it. Google to the rescue again :), a query for “[upload mail from thunderbird to gmail](http://www.google.com/search?q=upload+mail+from+thunderbird+to+gmail&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&ref=kudithipudi.org)” returned this [cool utility by Mark Lyon](http://www.marklyon.org/gmail/?ref=kudithipudi.org). It allows you to specify the source of your email and uploads the mail to your gmail account.

The next challenge was to find the directory/file where Thunderbird stores all the email. Google to the rescue again. You can get the location of the mail files from the account settings screen –> Local Folders in Thunderbird.

I am in E-mail bliss now. Use Gmail for all my messaging purposes. Next task would be to start using the Google Calendar.