imapsync is failing for me, with very odd errors; mostly "failure to append message to folder", or some such... And unlike most of the failures with imapsync, it didn't just error out (and give me the message with "N messages failed."), it just flat out crashes (it's outputting as if it's running, and then suddenly drops me back to a prompt). I kind of gave up on it for Gmail; but if you want to take a look at the errors, I'd be happy to toss you the log.

I also tried offlineimap, but that kept trying to read from Gmail and write local; I couldn't get it to start going the other direction.

And thus I've arrived to here...using the POP Mail Fetcher...

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Rick Romero <rick@havokmon.com> wrote:

Try imapsync - it seems to work fairly well with Gmail, except folders are screwy. freshmeat.net/projects/imapsync/

Rick

Quoting Neil <kngspook@gmail.com>:

I'm trying to move my entire email store from my Dovecot installation

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(which I normally access via IMAP) into Gmail using Gmail's Mail Fetcher (which functions over POP); and I'm running into two problems:

1. Gmail only imported 78 out of 1000+ mails in my inbox, which I'm taking to mean that Dovecot is reporting only those 78 as new. How can I get Dovecot to send all mail over as new?

2. I can't be sure of this yet (since, due to #1, Gmail doesn't seem to be downloading everything), but I'm pretty sure Dovecot is only reporting my Inbox emails over POP; is there a way I can get all my mail, from all my folders, to stream in over POP?

Thanks, Neil

PS. I'm not leaving Dovecot entirely, I just need to have my mail in another place in case something happens to my server...

Quoting "Seth Mattinen" <sethm@rollernet.us>:

Neil wrote:

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imapsync is failing for me, with very odd errors; mostly "failure to append message to folder", or some such... And unlike most of the failures with imapsync, it didn't just error out (and give me the message with "N messages failed."), it just flat out crashes (it's outputting as if it's running, and then suddenly drops me back to a prompt). I kind of gave up on it for Gmail; but if you want to take a look at the errors, I'd be happy to toss you the log.

Yeah, gmail doesn't support folders. Their IMAP support is misleading. Try dumping it all to INBOX.

In my experience mail will still be transferred to Gmail - it just
gets stuck under an 'IMAP - foldername' label instead of a "real"
synced folder. Maybe they've broken it more since :)