Comments on: Migrating your old IMAP to Google Mail http://colin.guthr.ie/2009/02/migrating-your-old-imap-to-google-mail/ Illegitimi non carborundum Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:14:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: IMAP su Gmail e AOL « Carlo Mazza Home http://colin.guthr.ie/2009/02/migrating-your-old-imap-to-google-mail/comment-page-1/#comment-509 IMAP su Gmail e AOL « Carlo Mazza Home Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:50:48 +0000 #comment-509 [...] se non si sta nello spazio disponibile si puo’ comperare altro spazio e qualcun altro ci ha provato ma si e’ imbattutto in un problema strano: c’e’ un limite di 40 caratteri sulle [...] [...] se non si sta nello spazio disponibile si puo’ comperare altro spazio e qualcun altro ci ha provato ma si e’ imbattutto in un problema strano: c’e’ un limite di 40 caratteri sulle [...]

]]> By: Colin http://colin.guthr.ie/2009/02/migrating-your-old-imap-to-google-mail/comment-page-1/#comment-146 Colin Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:15:38 +0000 #comment-146 Hi Licia, First of all you don't need access to either server hosting the mail (well you almost certainly can't get access to the Google Mail servers anyway!!). You just need access to some machine somewhere that can run the imapsync process. Imapsync is just a regular imap client (like your current mail program - i.e Thunderbird, Apple Mail, Evolution or (if you are really unlucky) <del datetime="2009-09-17T14:05:34+00:00">Lookout Extrastress</del>Outlook Express. You tell imapsync your mail passwords for both your current IMAP and your Google Mail and it simply logs into both and then copies the mails across for you creating the folders etc as needed. As imapsync is a console app, if you have any kind of console access (i.e. ssh) to a unix/linux/OSX machine (not tried it on windows but as it's perl it should work there too I guess?) you can run the "screen" app and then run imapsync inside screen, allowing you to detach and login again later. If the server's connection dies then imapsync will terminate, but as it's a sync program is should be safe to run it several times and it should fill in the missing mails. Hope this helps. Col Hi Licia,

First of all you don’t need access to either server hosting the mail (well you almost certainly can’t get access to the Google Mail servers anyway!!). You just need access to some machine somewhere that can run the imapsync process. Imapsync is just a regular imap client (like your current mail program – i.e Thunderbird, Apple Mail, Evolution or (if you are really unlucky) Lookout ExtrastressOutlook Express.

You tell imapsync your mail passwords for both your current IMAP and your Google Mail and it simply logs into both and then copies the mails across for you creating the folders etc as needed.

As imapsync is a console app, if you have any kind of console access (i.e. ssh) to a unix/linux/OSX machine (not tried it on windows but as it’s perl it should work there too I guess?) you can run the “screen” app and then run imapsync inside screen, allowing you to detach and login again later.

If the server’s connection dies then imapsync will terminate, but as it’s a sync program is should be safe to run it several times and it should fill in the missing mails.

Hope this helps.

Col

]]> By: Licia http://colin.guthr.ie/2009/02/migrating-your-old-imap-to-google-mail/comment-page-1/#comment-133 Licia Thu, 03 Sep 2009 22:01:14 +0000 #comment-133 This is very useful. I need to move all my mail out of my old IMAP and I want to use google mail (so I will not have to deal with incomprehensible instructions from sys admins on how to manage my email). I have tried to copy emails over folder by folder (drag and drop) but when folders contain more than say 10 emails the copy is incomplete (%^&$^$!!!) and only few random emails get copied over (why?) For an uninitiated like me who does not have access to the server hosting the email,(which does not support POP), what can I do to copy my email over to gmail? Do I have to install imapsync first? and where? would any machine do? then can I type that long command from a slow internet connection? what happens if I have to log out (or connection dies) before the transfer is finished? Thanks a lot! This is very useful. I need to move all my mail out of my old IMAP and I want to use google mail (so I will not have to deal with incomprehensible instructions from sys admins on how to manage my email). I have tried to copy emails over folder by folder (drag and drop) but when folders contain more than say 10 emails the copy is incomplete (%^&$^$!!!) and only few random emails get copied over (why?)
For an uninitiated like me who does not have access to the server hosting the email,(which does not support POP), what can I do to copy my email over to gmail?
Do I have to install imapsync first? and where? would any machine do? then can I type that long command from a slow internet connection? what happens if I have to log out (or connection dies) before the transfer is finished?
Thanks a lot!

]]> By: Colin http://colin.guthr.ie/2009/02/migrating-your-old-imap-to-google-mail/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Colin Sun, 19 Jul 2009 22:46:20 +0000 #comment-3 I've used imapsync too when migrating 30 IMAP accounts on a rented server, totalling 45GB, to another server at another ISP, and it worked great for me. It took half the night. The main advantage of using this over drag and drop in a client is that you can use it from the hosted server, which has a much much better bandwidth than typical DSL connections -- 100MBps upload versus 1MBps makes a huge difference. I’ve used imapsync too when migrating 30 IMAP accounts on a rented server, totalling 45GB, to another server at another ISP, and it worked great for me. It took half the night.

The main advantage of using this over drag and drop in a client is that you can use it from the hosted server, which has a much much better bandwidth than typical DSL connections — 100MBps upload versus 1MBps makes a huge difference.

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