Comments on: Transferring my digital live to Google http://www.eelco.com/2008/07/05/transferring-my-digital-live-to-google/ Techno Babble Tue, 26 Apr 2011 16:26:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Ricardo http://www.eelco.com/2008/07/05/transferring-my-digital-live-to-google/comment-page-1/#comment-90 Ricardo Wed, 22 Oct 2008 04:27:17 +0000 http://www.eelco.com/?p=17#comment-90 your Python script looks great though I haven't been able to use it with my personal gmail account. with personal accounts it's only possible to import through POP3. I no longer have my own hosting server (which saves me lots of free time :-)) so I couldn't easily setup a pop server with some of my old mail. I just woke up early and decided I needed to find a solution to import some mail from an old XFMail backup I had, RIGHT NOW. I first had to convert it to mbox (used xfmail2mbox.sh, though I had to fix it to make proper mboxes) and then I installed dovecot on my imac (compiled from source)... after some tweaking I was able to have dovecot serve a single inbox to gmail (had to forward pop3 on my router to my imac). I have to manually replace the inbox spool file for each folder I want to import, but I don't need all my old mail (some things from my past I don't need to remember ;-)). cool, now I have access to some of my old mails through my gmail account! Ricardo. your Python script looks great though I haven’t been able to use it with my personal gmail account.

with personal accounts it’s only possible to import through POP3.

I no longer have my own hosting server (which saves me lots of free time :-) ) so I couldn’t easily setup a pop server with some of my old mail.

I just woke up early and decided I needed to find a solution to import some mail from an old XFMail backup I had, RIGHT NOW. I first had to convert it to mbox (used xfmail2mbox.sh, though I had to fix it to make proper mboxes) and then I installed dovecot on my imac (compiled from source)… after some tweaking I was able to have dovecot serve a single inbox to gmail (had to forward pop3 on my router to my imac).
I have to manually replace the inbox spool file for each folder I want to import, but I don’t need all my old mail (some things from my past I don’t need to remember ;-) ).

cool, now I have access to some of my old mails through my gmail account!

Ricardo.

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