I came across mention of IMAPSync and Larch as tools to move emails out of Gmail to a new email account. Does anyone have any experience using these?

I have a family’s worth of email gmail accounts all of which are running out of space and will need to be moved to a new email provider. They would of course all like to keep their historical sent and recieved emails.

  • Scirocco@lemm.ee
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    10 hours ago

    GYB is very powerful and flexible, and I’ve used it to manipulate Gmail accounts in the hundreds of gigabytes.

    The community is decently supportive, but of course it is a command line tool so some familiarity with the shell is useful.

    https://github.com/GAM-team/got-your-back

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      9 hours ago

      Cheers I guess #gmail will always be around but I just don’t want to have the family start paying if we can move emails to storage and maybe slowly transition away.

  • Coelacanthus@lemmy.kde.social
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    15 hours ago

    IMAPSync is a great tool! It works perfect when migrate mails from one provider to another. In fact, some providers suggest users use this tool rather than implement migration feature by themselves. e.g. Migadu.

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    19 hours ago

    Use skykick its like 12 bucks per mailbox. They have live support so they will even help you setup the migration.

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      11 hours ago

      skykick

      Wtf is this? Their website is awful.

      $12 per mailbox is a crazy high price.

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    1 day ago

    You might consider using Google Takeout to export the emails to an mbox file, and then importing that into your new mail server.

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    1 day ago

    When I did it, I did it manually with thunderbird, which is a great way to delete clutter meanwhile

    Just select 1000 emails at a time and drop them in another IMAP server folder

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    1 day ago

    Imapsync works well, have uses it hundreds of times on massive accounts. Not with Gmail specifically though. I’d imagine you would lose labels.

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      1 day ago

      There aren’t that many providers who have gmail-like labelling functionality, but luckily Gmail serves labels as folders over IMAP. May cause a lot of duplicates, though.

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      1 day ago

      Cheers. Im going to have a go at that. Ive tried Google…Takeout which got me emails into Firefox but family are demanding and want them in IMAP. Honestly im worried about how many GBs of Storage I am going to have ( And have to backup)