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Brian Roy's Blog: The great IMAP migration…

  • Daniel Kraeer · 1 year ago
    I think godaddy has imap. They say they don't, but i was looking around my domain settings and noticed an imap adress at imap.domain.com

    set it up and it worked.
  • briantroy · 1 year ago
    Daniel -

    The thing is - even if it "works" right now there is no guarantee it will tomorrow. An unsupported solution is pretty much the same thing as no solution in my book.

    Brian
  • jlane · 10 months ago
    I am working on moving a non-profit over to Gmail. One concern is that the existing IMAP folders will be lost? I was thinking about signing up for the 30 day free trial of premium and syncing via IMAP? Once I get all the mail over... and in the right 'folder' my work is done. Any tips on moving? Do you think the 30 day trial idea is worth a shot?
  • MT · 8 months ago
    hi,

    were you ever able to imapsync from godaddy to gmail? if so what imaphostname you used for godaddy?
  • briantroy · 8 months ago
    GoDaddy doesn't support IMAP. There are, however, plenty of tools to migrate from POP to IMAP, or even local mailbox files (from your client) to IMAP.

    Good luck...
  • Schwieb · 7 months ago
    AWESOME! This post led us to be able to do a mass migration from our legacy email system to the Google Education accounts! FYI, Google's migration tool is far less compatible with different IMAP servers than imapsync.
  • briantroy · 7 months ago
    Glad to be of assistance! Good luck.
  • Ramon · 4 months ago
    Out of curiosity, did you go back and ? I've been trying to use imapsync to move 10 years worth of emails from an IMAP server to GMail, and it seems to do a great job 99% of the time. However, the log almost always shows a small handful of messages that were "skipped", and tracking those down is a bear. Did you see complete migration (i.e. no messages skipped) when you did your move?

    Ramon
  • Jonathan · 1 month ago
    Super helpful post, thanks! One thing to note, however, this doesn't seem to work (stalled on my imap server, didn't recognize a number of the params you used) with imapsync 1.99. After I'd downloaded it and tried it, I discovered I magically had a copy of imapsync 1.267 ALSO downloaded in my home dir, which worked like a charm. Very odd.
  • briantroy · 1 month ago
    Yes, this post is getting pretty old, but I'm glad you were able to figure out how to get it to work with newer versions of the tools.
  • Jonathan · 1 month ago
    Haha, no! The trick was that it *didn't* work with the newer version of the tool! Not sure what version you used, but the latest version seemed to remove the --sslX flag as well as the "works" feature :)