[LUNI] eMail Migration Help...

[Andrew Close]

hi all,

i've partially moved my family domain (email) from one provider to
Google's free services
(http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/org/index.html).  on my original
provider i created multiple accounts for my family members under our
domain and mail was handled through SendMail (i believe).  i still
have access to our mail directories and would like to migrate that
mail to our new GMail accounts if possible.  if not, i'd like to make
that mail available to my family through Thunderbird or some other
third party reader on their local filesystem.  i have a master account
which allows me to log in to our previous server and FTP those
directories where ever, however i'm not root and am unable to
open/chown those directories as they belong to each family member and
not me.  will i have permissions problems when moving those
directories from a Linux server to a Windows or Mac OS desktop?  and
if/when i am able to transfer the directories, does anyone have any
suggestions on loading their contents to our GMail accounts or at
least making them available to some third party reader?
thanks :)

by the way, the Google services link above allows you to host your
domain email, calendar, apps, etc through Google just like signing up
for a Google account but everything comes and goes transparently
through your domain.  so far the family is extremely happy with the
service and offerings.

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Andrew Close