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Comment on Gmail to Google Apps Email Migration by Dave

Dave — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 22:40:08 +0000

I used imapsync to migrate my gmail inbox to my google apps account as well and it worked great. Based on imapsync’s README, I used a slightly different command line:

imapsync \
–host1 imap.gmail.com –ssl1 \
–user1 \
–password1 XXX \
–host2 imap.gmail.com \
–user2 –ssl2 \
–password2 XXX \
–useheader ‘Message-Id’ –skipsize

(the “useheader” and “skipsize” options appear to be necessary for google imap right now)

I just ran it from my home machine and it didn’t take too long. The whole thing took less than a day for 25k messages / 900 megs of data.

Comment on Gmail to Google Apps Email Migration by Russianspi

Russianspi — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 20:13:10 +0000

Hi. I ran across this post this morning looking to do what is described here. I am a Linux sysadmin, so this solution appeals to me. I didn’t, however, wind up using it. I ended up just using my wife’s Vista laptop for ease/convenience. I stumbled across http://www.gmail-backup.com and gave it a shot. When I first saw it, I wasn’t sure that it would be exactly what I wanted, but this post (http://www.gmail-backup.com/i-want-migrate-google-apps-gmail-account-standard-myalias-gmail-com-account-how) assured me that it would meet all of the requirements listed above. Give it a shot. It was a REAL time saver for me.

Comment on Gmail to Google Apps Email Migration (part 2) by Hamden

Hamden — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 18:07:28 +0000

Awesome job!!

Comment on Gmail to Google Apps Email Migration (part 2) by Tyler

Tyler — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:12:54 +0000

Larry, I think the same procedure should in reverse without any changes. Just use your Google apps login as the source and your @gmail.com login as the destination.

Comment on Gmail to Google Apps Email Migration (part 2) by Larry McJunkin

Larry McJunkin — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:41:50 +0000

Any ideas for moving back from Google Apps Gmail to Regular Gmail and keeping all these things intact? I’m tired of waiting for Google Apps to include Google Labs and Themes and they’re more important to me than Google Apps. Thanks.

Larry

Comment on Gmail to Google Apps Email Migration by Cory Wright

Cory Wright — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:50:36 +0000

This is a fantastic, thanks for taking the time to write a post about it.

So far it is working great, although I am having one issue. Occasionally imapsync begins consuming 100% of the CPU and I must kill the process. When I restart the script it begins copying the messages from the folders it has already completed, as if they were not already in sync. As these folders are quite large, this is rather time consuming. Is this normal behavior?

Comment on Gmail to Google Apps Email Migration by Luke

Luke — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 17:23:56 +0000

I’d like to do this but it is a bit over my head technical wise. Could you do this for a fee or anyone else?

Comment on Gmail to Google Apps Email Migration (part 2) by Waldo Jaquith

Waldo Jaquith — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 02:33:12 +0000

Well, that was very useful. (And my first foray into AWS.) Thank you for providing this.

Comment 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

Comment on Gmail to Google Apps Email Migration 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!