Moving Mail boxes from RM EasyMail to Gmail

[edutech4schools]

Hello,

 

I have moved a few small schools over to Google Apps for Education and as the mailboxes of the old system have always been very small I just got the users to forward any mail from one account to the other.

 

I have been asked to move a large school where the main mailboxes all have a large amount of emails making the forwarding method a no go.

 

Anyone got any ideas how I can forward the contents of mailboxes from RM EasyMail to Google Apps for Education mail boxes?

[bodminman]

I had a similar issue going from RM easymail to Live@edu. I ended up setting the easymail to forward incoming mail to the new live@edu account, exporting users mail to a pst, connect outlook to live@edu account, connect the pst and then move the mail manually. Wasn't too much hassle.

[elsiegee40]

I had a similar issue going from RM easymail to Live@edu. I ended up setting the easymail to forward incoming mail to the new live@edu account, exporting users mail to a pst, connect outlook to live@edu account, connect the pst and then move the mail manually. Wasn't too much hassle.

 

This doesn't sound practical with more than a handful of mailboxes

[bodminman]

Maybe not but it worked for me. We had around 15 heavily used mailboxes the rest were hardly used at all.

 

How would you have done this?

[elsiegee40]

 

How would you have done this?

I have no idea. We have at least 40 to shift which is why I'm watching this thread.

[Edu-IT]

When you say large amount, just how large are we talking?

[Jollity]

I may be facing a similar senario soon. I have not got far in finding a solution, but I did think this blog post offered one potential solution - using a command line tool called Imapsync.

[Jollity]

Just discovered that the Google Apps Migration for Microsoft Exchange utility also supports generic IMAP servers as well, so that might work too - confusing name. You can give it a CSV of user names and passwords to migrate.