Migrating emails from Gmail to new email server - Lemmy
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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.

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.

  • dingdongitsabearEnglish
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    18 hours ago

    I host a local dovecot instance, that’s just an IMAP server, and moved all my gmail messages (10+ years) from multiple accounts to it and it’s super easy.

    1. you add the thing to thunderbird and create a folder like “gmail mike”
    2. then you add the gmail you want as an additional account
    3. grab all the messages from “All Mail” (they include sent and received messages) and drag them to the new folder
    4. sip coffee, give it sec, done.