Comments on: Migrating from GMail to Google Apps

By: goldpicasa

goldpicasa — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 14:17:34 +0000

Made a video how to easily migrate mail box with labels, should save you a lot of time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYzBbTz6xcs

By: Alis

Alis — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 18:37:53 +0000

Pretty good, I appreciate to all of the community to share their thoughts. I agree Trying Preimier Trial is way to go. But nothing was said about google doc, I have heaps their in different collections. Which I want to take over.

By: Travis Harris

Travis Harris — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 14:20:47 +0000

Sorry to keep posting over and over… but I have now uploaded the source to here : 1.350 (the binary would not work on my system)
https://s3.amazonaws.com/imapsync/imapsync-1.350.tar.gz

By: Travis Harris

Travis Harris — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 21:15:36 +0000

I found the binary for 1.315 here :
http://mirrors.linux.edu.lv/ftp.freebsd.org/ports/i386/packages-6-stable/All/imapsync-1.315_1.tbz

By: Travis Harris

Travis Harris — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 18:52:11 +0000

imapsync is no longer free. The most recent version I could find for download was 1.241 does anyone have a more recent version?
Also, I had to change the mail commands and the “$@” on my system to get it to work.

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By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 15:22:56 +0000

My folder names had spaces, so for FOLDER in “$@” doesn’t do the trick. I messed around, maybe got it figured out, but it wouldn’t find the messages– so I decided to try Paul’s advice.

After spending two hours getting the script to a point where I could run it, and then switching to the “just do the free upgrade” trick, I have to agree that “By far the easiest way to migrate emails is using the IMAP Mail Migration Tool in the Premier… edition.”

Of course, don’t forget to cancel– I have 8 users here so I’d get hit with a $400 fee– but we really don’t need any of the other features with Premier. The Migration Tool makes it *simple* — and it properly creates all the needed folders. As far as I can tell, even the stars are being copied.

Now, I don’t think it’s doing the “me” change that regexmess is facilitating- but my 8 little users can do without that!

By: Frankie Magic

Frankie Magic — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 05:14:00 +0000

Thanks for this post James.

The easiest way to migrate or move all of your old email across from your gmail account (as you mentioned) is to use Google’s IMAP MIGRATION TOOL. As Paul mentioned, you can only get this tool by upgading to a premium account. You can do this for free by opting for a free 30 day trial. Unfortunately, you need a credit card to get the trial but if you cancel within 30 days, your card doesn’t get charged anything. Great to get your gmail emails across to your new Google Apps account and then go back to a standard (free) account.

I see there are no instructions to using the imap migration tool so here they are;

If you are in the email section of google apps click on “Manage This Domain” or just go to your control panel.

Click on “Advanced Tools”

1. Scroll down and click on “Set up mail (IMAP) migration”

2. Enter this information:
- “Name of this server connection:” – You can name it anything you want, eg. GmailToApps (spaces are not allowed)
- “Server Software” – Other
- “Host” – imap.googlemail.com
- “Security” – SSL
- “Port” – 993
- “IMAP Path Prefix” – Leave this text box empty
- “Allow up to “3″connections(3) to this server at any given time
3. Press “Save Settings”
4. Select “Specify a few user accounts”
5. Follow the rest of the instructions.

I hope this will help someone.

Best wishes, Frankie Magic

By: Eduardo Fernández

Eduardo Fernández — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 22:07:52 +0000

We help small businesses migrate to Google Apps and we also ran into this problem recently. We have created a simple web interface that does all the migration in the background without installing any software. It can also be used to migrate from/to regular Gmail accounts.

Feel free to give it a try here:

https://apps.improffice.com/migrationbeta/

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