Fritz Slater wrote about imapsync:
Thank you for the recommendation. I did get it to work. It ran quite
slowly, but I suspect I was being throttled by Gmail.
When I last moved my own email from a small but well-run ISP, I did see
3.8MB/sec from them, but Fastmail topped out at just
On 6 May 2020, at 21:56, Eric Sharakan wrote:
It's not from Google; I think "Google" was a verb in that "Google
Imapsync" suggestion. :-)
Indeed :)
It is an open source tool - with the typical paid for support if you
need it (you probably won't unless you have a non standard migration to
Thank you for the recommendation. I did get it to work. It ran quite
slowly, but I suspect I was being throttled by Gmail.
I did have a problem with a memory leak. So I had to kill it and
restart it a couple of times. I was moving a 2GB mail account and it
grew to over 25GB with less than
It's not from Google; I think "Google" was a verb in that "Google
Imapsync" suggestion. :-)
-Eric
On 6 May 2020, at 13:23, Rob Willett via mailmate wrote:
I wasn’t aware that imapsync was produced by Google.
I can state that I moved 40GB of mail data around with it when I
changed mail
Alexandre Takacs wrote, quoting Fritz Slater:
I would like to move/copy a mailbox tree (i.e. mailboxes that contain
other mailboxes) from one IMAP server account to another. I tried
just Option-drag and only the top mailbox was copied. It is empty on
the new server as it only contained
I wasn’t aware that imapsync was produced by Google.
I can state that I moved 40GB of mail data around with it when I changed
mail servers and it worked very well indeed.
Rob
On 6 May 2020, at 18:15, Randall Gellens wrote:
I haven't used Google's tools (and, speaking personally, Google is
imapsync is not a Google tool. http://imapsync.lamiral.info/
On 6 May 2020, at 13:15, Randall Gellens wrote:
I haven't used Google's tools (and, speaking personally, Google is not
the most standards-compliant organization, so I'd probably use them
mostly for moving mail to or from Google
I haven't used Google's tools (and, speaking personally, Google is not
the most standards-compliant organization, so I'd probably use them
mostly for moving mail to or from Google rather than between non-Google
systems), but I have used Dovecot's dsync tool to move between different
IMAP
