[LUNI] eMail Migration Help...

[Chris McKeever]

Do you have all the messages already in Thunderbird?
If so - you can just IMAP them over to google using tbird as a conduit

If you are still running POP/IMAP on your old provider, you can just
POP/IMAP them into Google through their web interface

Bascially - if you can get them into Thunderbird, you can migrate them
into google

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 9:04 AM, Andrew Close <aclose at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
>  --
>  Andrew Close
>  --
>  Linux Users Of Northern Illinois - Technical Discussion
>  http://luni.org/mailman/listinfo/luni
>