Thursday, May 8, 2008

Options Transferring Email to GApps

If you can mount the old accounts via imap then you can also mount the GApps accounts via imap. Then you drag and drop from one set of folders to the other. If the old mail system has folders, GApps will create labels to mimic the old folder structure. The instructions for setting up imap are in the settings section of the webmail view of an account. Use username@mydomain (GApp username) as the login and the password will be that of the GApps account.

You might be able to use Mail Fetcher. Within your GApps account (webmail view) click on Settings then Accounts. You'll see a section on get mail from other accounts. Here's the link to the Read More: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ctx=mail&answer=21288

If you have the Premium Edition of GApps, there are additional migration methods. Open the Control Panel (admin) and click on Advanced Tools. You see a section on email migration.

Larry (Power Poster)