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

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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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[-] F04118F@feddit.nl 2 points 3 weeks ago

I have been planning on migrating to Proton (I know, wrong community) and this could very well be the year. Just 2 gmail and 1 hotmail address/inbox to migrate but would love to follow the tips given here.

I have some questions to specify your case:

Did you use tags a lot? Did you use them purely as a hierarchy (i.e. could it be mapped to folders) or do you have a lot of crossover between tags?
Do you have a custom domain or is the original email on the gmail.com domain and the new one a different address?

[-] abeorch@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago

I don't use tags alot and neither do the users I would migrate
I am not sure if this is possible but at the moment they just have gmail accounts but would move to a email with a custom domain - Im tempted to use Yunohost but worried about running my own email server and the responsibility that would come with that but also the size of the email accounts, Id also prefer that Yunohost had scheduled Backups to an external location in place.

[-] Grumpy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago

Never heard of yunohost, but... definitely not worth managing your own email server. That shit is essentially a full time job. And it's forever ongoing full time job, with 24/365 on call type job if emails are mission critical. Doesn't matter how much other hosts are charging, it's worth using third party email service.

[-] digdilem@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago

That shit is essentially a full time job. And it’s forever ongoing full time job, with 24/365 on call type job if emails are mission critical.

Totally agree. No fun being a small guy in a dugout and a rifle when the spam and malware arms race is bombing you with nukes.

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