Migrating emails from Gmail to new email server (lemmy.ml)
from abeorch@lemmy.ml to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 28 Nov 15:41
https://lemmy.ml/post/23000698

I came across mention of IMAPSync and Larch as tools to move emails out of Gmail to a new email account. Does anyone have any experience using these?

I have a family’s worth of email gmail accounts all of which are running out of space and will need to be moved to a new email provider. They would of course all like to keep their historical sent and recieved emails.

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Shadow@lemmy.ca on 28 Nov 16:26 next collapse

Imapsync works well, have uses it hundreds of times on massive accounts. Not with Gmail specifically though. I’d imagine you would lose labels.

oranki@piefed.social on 28 Nov 17:15 next collapse

There aren't that many providers who have gmail-like labelling functionality, but luckily Gmail serves labels as folders over IMAP. May cause a lot of duplicates, though.

abeorch@lemmy.ml on 28 Nov 18:12 collapse

Cheers. Im going to have a go at that. Ive tried Google…Takeout which got me emails into Firefox but family are demanding and want them in IMAP. Honestly im worried about how many GBs of Storage I am going to have ( And have to backup)

e0qdk@reddthat.com on 28 Nov 16:30 next collapse

You might consider using Google Takeout to export the emails to an mbox file, and then importing that into your new mail server.

Moonrise2473@feddit.it on 28 Nov 17:16 next collapse

When I did it, I did it manually with thunderbird, which is a great way to delete clutter meanwhile

Just select 1000 emails at a time and drop them in another IMAP server folder

smiletolerantly@awful.systems on 29 Nov 07:27 next collapse

You can even just do Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V.

It somehow feels… Wrong, but it just works.

tehWrapper@lemmy.world on 30 Nov 03:08 collapse

Did same

B_DL@lemmynsfw.com on 29 Nov 00:32 next collapse

Bitten is my tool of choice.

NastyNative@mander.xyz on 29 Nov 07:23 next collapse

Use skykick its like 12 bucks per mailbox. They have live support so they will even help you setup the migration.

abeorch@lemmy.ml on 29 Nov 09:24 next collapse

Cool. I think Im looking at about 10 mailboxes so far.

MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 29 Nov 15:15 collapse

skykick

Wtf is this? Their website is awful.

$12 per mailbox is a crazy high price.

Coelacanthus@lemmy.kde.social on 29 Nov 11:14 next collapse

IMAPSync is a great tool! It works perfect when migrate mails from one provider to another. In fact, some providers suggest users use this tool rather than implement migration feature by themselves. e.g. Migadu.

Scirocco@lemm.ee on 29 Nov 16:29 next collapse

GYB is very powerful and flexible, and I’ve used it to manipulate Gmail accounts in the hundreds of gigabytes.

The community is decently supportive, but of course it is a command line tool so some familiarity with the shell is useful.

github.com/GAM-team/got-your-back

abeorch@lemmy.ml on 29 Nov 17:28 collapse

Cheers I guess #gmail will always be around but I just don’t want to have the family start paying if we can move emails to storage and maybe slowly transition away.

daco@lemm.ee on 01 Dec 10:02 collapse

I use infomaniak email with a custom domain. Is around 2 USD per user with unlimited storage. The web UI has an email import tool that works with Gmail. You get a manager UI to manage accounts and settings (sometimes a bit confusing, but works).

After checking many providers, this was the best alternative for me. I hope that helps.

abeorch@lemmy.ml on 01 Dec 17:24 collapse

Ah cheers yeah may consider but goot.at least 10 gmail accounts amd counting to deal with.