Needless to say, I’ve also gone for RAID5 in my new desktop PC. I also have Western Digital drives, so with any luck, I’ll be able to get the same service.

I think the amount of hard drives I’ve seen die for no reason is well into the 30s or 40s. I think it’s happening a lot more these days. Perhaps because of the higher density or perhaps just because they use cheaper components.

I’ve also got a solid state hard drive in my desktop PC. Presumably these don’t die, but they do of course have a finite lifecycle. Not sure when or how you find out your SSD is dying, or how it affects data, so I guess I cross that bridge when I come to it .

1. In your Gmail account (From where you want to import all your emails to your Google Apps statndard account) go to ‘Settings’
2. Then click on ‘Forwarding POP/IMAP’ tab.
3. Then select ‘Enable POP for all mail (even mail that’s already been downloaded)select allow POP for all’
4. Now go to your Google Apps account.
5. Go to ‘Settings’
6. The click on ‘Accounts’ tab
7. In the section ‘Get mail from other accounts:’ Click on the link ‘Add a mail account you own’
8. A new window pops up, just follow the process of providing your Gmail Account information
9. Probably 2nd page into it, it will ask for username, password, etc. and it will have a drop down menu next to Pop server: select the 1st ‘pop.gmail.com’ in the list
10. do not check mark leave messages as gmail does not support it

11. Check mark label and give it a good label like: ‘My Gmail’ or something.
12. Then click Add Account and it will go through the verification. Once you verify the account. You are done.

13. Now you can go back to the inbox and you should see your ‘My Gmail’ label. Click on it and it should download all your emails from your Gmail account. Please note that you will loose all the emails in your Gmail Account.

14. Final step is to then go back to the Gmail Account and disable POP download and enable forwarding to your google apps email account.

Hope this helps all the google apps users out there. Google Apps ROCKS….

Please contact me at kimnkhan@gmail.com if you need google apps related support.

Can I recopy your doc in the imapsync FAQ or future wiki (with the reference url) ?

Thanks in advance.

You can get a free trial from Google, do the migration and revert to Standard Edition (free) within 30 days and pay nothing. I have done this many times for clients.

Another option is to use the free program at gmail-backup.com

Regards.

Paul Myatt