[LUNI] eMail Migration Help...

[Chris McKeever]

If your service still has IMAP for you - you can connect to that
server.  You may have to make a local hosts
entry to point thunderbird from your machine over to the original host.

Once you have thunderbird tapped into the old system, and the google
system, its just a drag and drop

there are probably some tools that can rip the maildir into
thunderbird local files (not sure what they are called)
and then you can do the same thing drag and drop them into the google IMAP


On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:30 AM, Andrew Close <aclose at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Chris McKeever <cgmckeever at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > 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
>
>  unfortunately i wasn't forward thinking enough regarding my migration.
>  :)  i (and my family) do not have local copies of our mail and were
>  not using Thunderbird previously.  most of the family was using the
>  web based SquirrelMail client.  my previous provider does have an IMAP
>  server still, but i'm not sure i can do anything with it.  my
>  providers DNS entries are now pointing to Google since they are
>  effectively hosting everything for our domain now.
>  i just 'assumed' ;) that i could still take the mail files/dir and
>  import them into some third party reader...
>
>
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