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Migrating emails from Gmail to new email server (doc.yunohost.org)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Many email providers have an inbuilt tool that will handle all this for you.

Fastmail, for example. I switched to them 4-5 years ago, and the process of migrating over a decades worth of mail was straightforward and pretty quick.

https://www.fastmail.com/blog/migrate-to-fastmail/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Cheers. Ill have a look . I suspect we will just be using a hosting providers email rather than dedicated email service. (Ideally Id like to run own email server but I have heard that can be a real struggle to keep emails being delivered)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Hosting your own email server is a challenge, as DMARC, SPF and random hand waving by email companies (who should know better) make it needlessly problematic.

There's also the issue of whether your home ISP allows inbound email ports (25/tcp, etc). A lot don't.

It's possible(?) a hosting provider can do decent email, but I tend to think of that like 1990s-era ISPs who provided email: liable to be discontinued at any time with little/no notice and not portable.

But it's your call. Good luck.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah . I dont think we will move their primary.email addresses from Gmail but mainly use their accounts for identity purposes with self hosting and backup / storage of emails rather than paying Google.

Who knows though ..I meqn on q VPS im using an email server at moment to collaborate work with friends. It wouldn't be mission critical .. just family critical.