Outlook Rules Export To Gmail

• Simple tool to export rules from Outlook and import them into Google Gmail as filters
• Tested on Win7 64bit, Win8 64bit & Outlook 2013, 2010 but it should work on 2007
• It also outputs rules in CSV to the command line so you can script it if you want
• http://bcleary.github.com/outlook-gmail-rules-export/

Download

• 0.0.2 – Stable version
• 0.0.1 – Old version

Usage

• Run the tool from the command line;
  • OutlookRulesExport.exe example@example.com
  • This will create a rules.xml file in the current directory containing the rules
  • You might get a warning from outlook asking you to allow access, if so click ok.
• Log into Gmail
• Enable gmail filters import in Gmail
  • Setting -> Labs enable „Filter import/export“ and click save changes
• Backup your existing Gmail filters
  • Settings -> Filters -> „Select All“ -> „Export“
• Import the rules as Gmail filters
  • Settings -> Filters click „Import Filters“ and import rules.xml
  • Importing existing filters into gmail is handled gracefully, no duplicate filters should be created, but its always a good idea to backup your filters

Supported Rule Types

• The tool currently only works for the following types of rules (will add support for other types of rules as i need them or as requested)
  • Condition: „From Address“ Actions: „Move-To-Folder | Copy-To-Folder“
  • Condition: „Subject Contains“ Actions: „Move-To-Folder | Copy-To-Folder“
  • Condition: „Body Contains“ Actions: „Move-To-Folder | Copy-To-Folder“

Credits

• This is a rewrite of the https://github.com/iloveitaly/outlook-gmail-rules-migration project from ruby and vb to c#
• Thanks to iloveitaly (Michael Bianco) https://github.com/iloveitaly for his work figuring out the various ways Outlook stores its rules https://github.com/iloveitaly/outlook-gmail-rules-migration