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Gmail to Google Apps Email Migration (part 2)

Tyler — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:45:48 +0000

I promised an Amazon EC2 AMI with imapsync and a few Gmail migration scripts. See the Gmail to Google Apps Email Migration post for background information. I'll jump right in with a procedure to get you started with your own migration:

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Gmail to Google Apps Email Migration

Tyler — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 05:06:33 +0000

I came up with a method for migrating the emails in my personal Gmail (user@gmail.com) email account to my Google Apps (user@thamtech.com) email account. I had a few simple requirements:

Every email in the @gmail.com account must be migrated into the @thamtech.com account with all attachments intact.
The read/unread status of each email must be maintained.
The labels applied to each email must be maintained, whether they were applied by a filter or manually.
- Certain Google-endorsed migration solutions are only able to maintain message labels that were applied automatically by a filter.
The starred/non-starred status of each email must be maintained.
The date on migrated emails must be the original date, NOT the date of migration.
- Certain migrations involving Entourage have had this unfortunate result.
The Recipient column when viewing the list of migrated Sent Mail must show the recipients of the emails, NOT my name or "me".
- Certain migrations involving involving Entourage or Outlook have had this unfortunate result.

Also, Gmail normally replaces my name with "me" when displaying the sender/receiver of emails. I prefer that the emails display exactly the same, "me," after being migrated, rather than saying "user@gmail.com". Is this too much to ask? No!

I found a solution using imapsync and Amazon EC2 (I suppose any old computer would do, but this gave me a much higher bandwidth connection to Google's servers than I would have had otherwise). Here's a brief overview of my procedure:

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Consuming Webservices with Complex Input Parameters

Tyler — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 17:50:53 +0000

ColdFusion sometimes has trouble assembling the inputs to a web service when the parameters to the web service function are complex. I ran into trouble recently when trying to use the findObjects() method of the API-A interface to a Fedora Commons repository.

There is a discussion of this issue in the adobe forums with a good description of ColdFusion's behavior when preparing parameters for a web service call.

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