Moving old emails to Gmail

[Rob Campbell]

I have a backup of mail messages I have from back when i was in school
using pine and I want to have them imported to my Gmail.  So I set up
dovecot and my Gmail can access it just fine but it can't find anything
except my inbox (which I can't even find).  I've moved my mail directory
and I can view the emails using alpine but I cannot view my inbox using
alpine.  Also, although Gmail can get my new test messages, it can't find
the messages in ~/mail where I am viewing them with alpine.  How do I make
it so Gmail can pull from ~/mail or ~/Maildir because I also converted the
messages in ~/mail to ~/Maildir format but although I've tried
mail_location = mbox:~/mail
mail_location = mbox:~/Maildir
mail_location = maildir:~/mail
and
mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir

None of this worked but mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir is the only one
that will at least allow me to get test messages in my inbox which Gmail
can then pull.

How do I resolve these issues?

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