Local imap users moving to gmail

Post #355,592 by crazy 3/20/12 4:22:51 PM Reply	Local imap users moving to gmail Ok, so what are the steps? I need about 30 gmail accounts under our domain. So how does that work? What setup is required, and any aids in moving old folders? Greg? Anybody?
Post #355,604 by folkert 3/20/12 6:05:43 PM 3/20/12 6:05:53 PM Reply	Google has a wizard that works very well. It steps you through the whole process and makes it happen. It can and will import ALL existing mail from you current mail server... provided you let it have access to the account. Also, you can have you users move mail themselves if they so choose... with two accounts and one e-mail client, drag and dropping folders etc... Its not that hard. You can have GMail administratively transfer the mail through the dashboard as well... but you have to know the user's passwords on the "old" system. Edited by folkert March 20, 2012, 06:05:53 PM EDT Expand All History
Post #355,607 by crazy 3/20/12 7:20:54 PM Reply	Cool I have full passwords for all accounts. So I setup the accounts on the gmail server via some type of web interface, right? And I need to tell it I want it to synch up with the current imap server? Then I change the MX records. Then I press "GO". And magic happens, it sucks up the local store to the cloud, and done? Can I still keep the old email server in place and use it for outbound but not inbound? I should be able to leave it in with a low priority MX and it'll never see an inbound message. Maybe. I should block inbound just in case. Bounces will go to gmail.
Post #355,617 by folkert 3/20/12 11:05:21 PM 3/20/12 11:12:57 PM Reply	You'd best only use... the local machine for outbound machine made mail. I'd create the accounts and the aliases for those accounts first, swap the MX record and have it slurp up the folders and mail after they start using GMAIL and the authenticated SSMTP port 465 for client outbound mail. 25GB of mail in Google mail is hyarge... I mean... I;ve got 5 years of systems e-mail (a lot) and I'm only at 8GB... Anything else, just use GMAIL, since it does the "put in sent mail" thing automagically. In your SPF records make sure the local machine is listed as an allowed machine, along with Google's stuff. You love it. And yes, the web interface/dashboard is quite completely well done. Huge orgs are now using it and most have good things to say about it. Edited by folkert March 20, 2012, 11:06:18 PM EDT Edited by folkert March 20, 2012, 11:12:57 PM EDT Expand All History
Post #355,663 by jake123 3/22/12 12:09:38 AM Reply	What Greg said I did that migration for my company a year or so ago. It was very very easy. One option for outbound alerts is to configure the alerting machine to use google's outbound servers; that may or may not be practical depending on the nature of the host and alerts in question.
Post #355,666 by crazy 3/22/12 5:30:56 AM Reply	Thanks both

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