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It doesn't take that much more. Office 365's base plan is something like 35£/year, plus around 10£/year for a domain. They offer IMAP import so migrating from G

It doesn't take that much more. Office 365's base plan is something like 35£/year, plus around 10£/year for a domain. They offer IMAP import so migrating from Gmail is seamless.

bad_user 8y ago
Without a good importing tool (warning: the GSuite importing tools are shit), I recommend "imapsync": https://github.com/imapsync/imapsync https://github.com/imapsync/imapsync After cloning the repository and installing the listed dependencies (some Perl packages available in your Brew / Ubuntu repository already), you can do: imapsync \ --host1 imap.old.com \ --user1 "old@email.com" \ --password1 xxxxxxxxxxxxx \ --ssl1 \ --host2 imap.new.com \ --user2 "new@email.com" \ --password2 yyyyyyyyyyyyy \ --ssl2 \ --errorsmax 1000000 \ --syncinternaldates \ --useheader 'Message-Id' \ --noreleasecheck \ --noexpunge \ --automap Works great for importing to and from Gmail, but you might want to add a folder rewrite for the Sent folder (with --f1f2). But with FastMail, for those interested, the out of the box importing tools in their web interface work great, so no need for any command line tools.
- teh_klev 8y ago
  I've used imapsync in the past to migrate thousands of mail accounts from and old decrepit IMAP environment (with some weird edge cases) to a shiny new IMAP based mail platform. It's a hugely flexible and versatile tool and it's quite zippy as well, can highly recommend.
timerol 8y ago
Effort, not money. As a Firefox/gmail user who routinely shits on Google, it's mostly the lock-in of any email address that keeps me coming back. I've actually opened a few paid accounts, but effort to switch is real. I gave up partly through switching over the dozens (100s?) of services that send me emails. I would never get to the point where all of my acquaintances and relatives actually use the new address.
- lotu 8y ago
  Why not setup email forwarding and just wait a few years for people to get the message?
  - mstade 8y ago
    This is precisely what I have done and it's worked great. All services I use (and care about) I've changed to use service specific aliases now and it works fantastically well. Effort wise I'd say I spent probably a couple of days migrating some ten odd years of email from gmail, setting up domains etc. All in all, the migration itself was done within a week. Only maintenance I do on this setup now is send receipts to my accountant, and update credit card details when needed.

It doesn't take that much more. Office 365's base plan is something like 35£/year, plus around 10£/year for a domain. They offer IMAP import so migrating from Gmail is seamless.

bad_user 8y ago

Without a good importing tool (warning: the GSuite importing tools are shit), I recommend "imapsync": https://github.com/imapsync/imapsync https://github.com/imapsync/imapsync After cloning the repository and installing the listed dependencies (some Perl packages available in your Brew / Ubuntu repository already), you can do: imapsync \ --host1 imap.old.com \ --user1 "old@email.com" \ --password1 xxxxxxxxxxxxx \ --ssl1 \ --host2 imap.new.com \ --user2 "new@email.com" \ --password2 yyyyyyyyyyyyy \ --ssl2 \ --errorsmax 1000000 \ --syncinternaldates \ --useheader 'Message-Id' \ --noreleasecheck \ --noexpunge \ --automap Works great for importing to and from Gmail, but you might want to add a folder rewrite for the Sent folder (with --f1f2). But with FastMail, for those interested, the out of the box importing tools in their web interface work great, so no need for any command line tools.

teh_klev 8y ago
I've used imapsync in the past to migrate thousands of mail accounts from and old decrepit IMAP environment (with some weird edge cases) to a shiny new IMAP based mail platform. It's a hugely flexible and versatile tool and it's quite zippy as well, can highly recommend.

timerol 8y ago

Effort, not money. As a Firefox/gmail user who routinely shits on Google, it's mostly the lock-in of any email address that keeps me coming back. I've actually opened a few paid accounts, but effort to switch is real. I gave up partly through switching over the dozens (100s?) of services that send me emails. I would never get to the point where all of my acquaintances and relatives actually use the new address.

lotu 8y ago
Why not setup email forwarding and just wait a few years for people to get the message?
- mstade 8y ago
  This is precisely what I have done and it's worked great. All services I use (and care about) I've changed to use service specific aliases now and it works fantastically well. Effort wise I'd say I spent probably a couple of days migrating some ten odd years of email from gmail, setting up domains etc. All in all, the migration itself was done within a week. Only maintenance I do on this setup now is send receipts to my accountant, and update credit card details when needed.