On Sun, 24 Feb 2013 18:17:07 -0800 wes <[email protected]> dijo: >as an admin for several domains on google email hosting, I can say the >following with some degree of certainty: > >aliasing one address to another is trivially easy. moving emails from >one account to another is complicated and convoluted. I spend HOURS >doing this. > >also: more than likely, no money changed hands between PSU and Google >regarding moving email hosting. Potentially some paid support calls to >work out details, but I seriously doubt anything beyond that.
Thanks for the observations. It has been over a week and they have not succeeded in creating the alias. I can move the e-mails from the old account to the new one in a matter of minutes with Claws-Mail, because both accounts are IMAP4. In fact, I can just drag and drop entire folders from the old account to the new one with the Claws-Mail GUI. In a matter of minutes Claws-Mail will move the mails to the new account on the Google server. The problem is that the help desk people kept assuring me that I could keep the old account (which was not correct), so I did not bother to move the saved e-mails from my old account to the new one. Finally, the old account was disabled. Now I cannot move the mails out of it to the new account because I no longer have access to the old account. If only someone would listen to me, enable the old account for 15 minutes, I could resolve most of the problem. But the front desk people do not have the authority to do this, and I can't get to anyone who does have the authority. In the meantime, Friday morning I received a phone call from a student because his e-mail to me had bounced. I volunteer to help students in their linguistics classes. For years professors have been giving out my e-mail address (and sometimes my phone number, fortunately) to students as a resource they can contact when they need help. There are hundreds of these students and I have no way to communicate to them that I have a new e-mail address. Not being reachable by students is a vacation for me, but ultimately not good. PSU is a very frustrating place. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
