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Re: The great IMAP migration…

Kelvin Nicholson — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 03:28:05 -0000

Cheers for posting this. I'm currently migrating many years worth of email from my personal server to Gmail, and wanted to know there was a way out "just in case".

Re: The great IMAP migration…

woodardj — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:12:00 -0000

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 :)

Re: The great IMAP migration…

briantroy — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:07:35 -0000

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.

Re: The great IMAP migration…

woodardj — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:01:11 -0000

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.

Re: The great IMAP migration…

ramonfelciano — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 18:11:35 -0000

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

Re: The great IMAP migration…

briantroy — Tue, 05 May 2009 15:40:42 -0000

Glad to be of assistance! Good luck.

Re: The great IMAP migration…

Schwieb — Tue, 05 May 2009 15:29:14 -0000

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.

Re: The great IMAP migration…

briantroy — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 19:55:35 -0000

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...

Re: The great IMAP migration…

MT — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:52:03 -0000

hi,

were you ever able to imapsync from godaddy to gmail? if so what imaphostname you used for godaddy?

Re: The great IMAP migration…

jlane — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 10:39:07 -0000

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?

Re: The great IMAP migration…

briantroy — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:57:06 -0000

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

Re: The great IMAP migration…

Daniel Kraeer — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 17:13:32 -0000

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.