Thanks

On Wednesday, February 29, 2012 1:49:36 PM UTC-8, Claudio Cherubino wrote:
>
> Hi Ron,
>
> The mail migration tools are not supported on this forum, please use 
> http://support.google.com/a/?hl=en.
> FYI, we also have an Email Migration API (
> http://code.google.com/googleapps/domain/email_migration/developers_guide_protocol.html)
>  that 
> allows developers to write their own migration software and the API is 
> supported here.
> Thanks
>
> Claudio
>
> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Ron <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Ok folks, throwing up a strange solution to our crazy problem.  Hope you 
>> can help clarify a few things.
>>
>> We are dropping our old host - no ifs, ands or buts.  Our old host has 
>> the following: files, FTP accounts and our mail.
>>
>> My question lies in the mail section.  We plan to employ Gmail as our 
>> mail server.  However, this is only going to be for emails that are coming 
>> from our old host.  They will be migrated to the Gmail server and the 
>> connection is severed between the old host and Gmail, thus these accounts 
>> will be inactive and only accessible for read only.  We plan to start with 
>> a clean slate on the new host side and ORGANIZE as that was our problem 
>> with the old host - thus the situation we are in.  
>>
>> Are there any foreseeable (other than questions below) issues that this 
>> could cause?
>>
>> If an email is needed to be forwarded after the connect is severed 
>> between old host and Gmail, is there any other way to do so other than 
>> updating MX records on the new host side? (would like to avoid doing so; a 
>> solution i.e. can email messages be downloaded from Gmail, imported into 
>> third party client (Outlook) and used from there?)
>>
>> With the Gmail migration tool, does it literally migrate them or copy 
>> them over?  Can other tools such as mailjumpr.com be used if Gmail 
>> Migration tool migrates rather than copy?  (would like to have a backup)
>>
>> How long does it take for the migration tool to complete? I have two 
>> accounts with upwards of 20k (yes you read that right, 20,000 emails) and 
>> the remaining 10 accounts with much less.
>>
>> Thank you for your help.
>>
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