Even though gmail tells me it will send my email "from" my main address, sometimes people hit reply and they see a personal (unprofessional) gmail address.
I was excited when Google hosted services came out. You can allow them to manage some parts of your domain name, like email. Great - except there's no tool to convert your account. No tool to properly migrate your account.
- I want my labels to transfer correctly.
- I want the message dates to be correct for when I received the emails.
- I want the emails to say they were sent to my main address, rather than the gmail.
Imapsync connects to 2 email accounts simultaneously and compares and transfers emails.
These are my steps:
Step 1: Search the web for hours trying to find the solitary blog post about it.
Step 2: Download imapsync's recommended software and ActivePerl that says you can use it on Windows.
Step 3: Try and try, and give up on running imapsync from Windows.
Step 4: Go back to the blog post and find the blogger has created an Amazon EC2 image that can run this.
Step 5: Spend hours trying to figure out how to connect to EC2 and run an image, SSH in so that you can SFTP in, download Putty, give up.
Step 6: Install Ubuntu Linux on Microsoft Virtual PC.
Step 7: Find out that Ubuntu won't load on Virtual PC. Spend hours trying to tweak the right settings, enter in command line values in different places as Ubuntu boots.
Step 8: In Ubuntu's terminal, run imapsync, and get the error about Date Manipulation
Step 9: Search the web for the fix to Date Manipulation, finally find it in the Synaptic Package manager.
Step 10: Run imapsync. Run it again every few hours when it stops. Hope it will eventually get them all.
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