Comments on: Gmail to Google Apps Email Migration

By: krishna vanka

krishna vanka — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 03:07:26 +0000

hi friends
all in the blog is excellent.but it is for IT people like u.
Is there any way to copy and store gmail or yahoo mail messages -in and out to a safe place in my Windows XP? I dont prefer Outlook Express.
Anxiously waiting for ur response.
-krishna

By: Joost

Joost — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:42:48 +0000

This is just what i was looking for.

Extra props for Morgan and Michiel, I’m probably too computer illiterate to figure out the dependencies myself.

Thanks!

By: Michiel

Michiel — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:54:39 +0000

Thanks to Tylers script I was able to move lots of mail from my Gmail account to my Google Apps for Domains account.

I found Morgan’s comment on the various packages needed for Ubtuntu helpful. Actually I would like to expand his comment a little: there is also a package for the Perl library Date::Manip. I am not a big fan of installing Perl packages via cpan because you need to compile it on any machine, you’ll need to have a C compiler, it will not be kept up-to-date on your systems via the Package Manager, etc. If you just want to install all packages via apt-get the line would be:

#apt-get install imapsync unzip lynx libdate-manip-perl

After that you can run the script straightaway, no need to set up and use cpan.

By: balak

balak — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:52:51 +0000

thanks!

This worked fine - I am in the process of transferring almost 2GB from my gmail a/c.

Ubuntu Hardy, latest imapsync (1.241-1ubuntu1). Just had to modify your script to escape the @

By: Sam

Sam — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 11:52:34 +0000

Does this script also port over the “Chats” folder?

To use this do I need to have google apps premier edition or can I use with the free standard account?

Regards

By: Alexander Mikhalev

Alexander Mikhalev — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 21:14:14 +0000

Thank you very much for this post. It was very useful.

By: geeko

geeko — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:10:32 +0000

There is a problem with gmail when you have same files in the trash folder.
Though imapsync says it’s copied, it is in fact not (or it actually is but google doesn’t create a label correctly).

Basically, just make sure that your trash is empty before syncing.

Here’s the conversation I had recently with Gilles:
———
Hi Gilles,

On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 10:08 PM, Gilles LAMIRAL
> Ok.
> I made more tests. I found this behavior:
>
> 1) First gm_1 to gm_2 is OK with inbox
>
> 2) I delete gm_2/inbox
> messages go to gm_2/Trash
>
> 3) Second gm_1 to gm_2 is KO with inbox
> gm_1/inbox messages are no longer stored
> in gm_2/inbox even if imapsync did it successfuly.
>
> 4) I empty gm_2/Trash
>
> 5) Third gm_1 to gm_2 is OK with inbox
> gm_1/inbox messages are in gm_2/inbox
>

By: geeko

geeko — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:31:27 +0000

I ran into the problem that in Germany (and I think also in the UK), google had to change their service from gmail to googlemail due to some legal crap.
You can add the following command to rename the [Google Mail] folders to the required [Gmail] folder:

–regextrans2 ’s/\[Google Mail\]/\[Gmail\]/’

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Migrating from Gmail to Google Apps « Zardoz — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:40:48 +0000

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By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 22:46:44 +0000

Thanks a lot for the script! I’m using it now to transfer ~600MB of mail from my gmail account to my new google apps gmail account. One thing I noticed after it crashed out the first time is that it doesn’t appear to be successfully identifying duplicate messages. It just starts over at the beginning, copying all messages over. I’ve gone to using –folder and –maxage to get through all the email, but this is peculiar. I’m running on Ubuntu Gutsy and have tried both imapsync 1.219 and 1.255. Same result.