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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You might consider using Google Takeout to export the emails to an mbox file, and then importing that into your new mail server.
Bitten is my tool of choice.
Imapsync works well, have uses it hundreds of times on massive accounts. Not with Gmail specifically though. I’d imagine you would lose labels.
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)
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.
Use skykick its like 12 bucks per mailbox. They have live support so they will even help you setup the migration.
Cool. I think Im looking at about 10 mailboxes so far.
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
You can even just do Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V.
It somehow feels… Wrong, but it just works.
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.
