Transferring mail from IMAP server to gmail
I use gmail as a mail dump:
- ‘current’ and important mail is kept on my fastmail.fm account for access from everywhere
- ‘old’ mail (>~12 months) from Sent and Trash are semi-regularly transferred to gmail where they can be searched etc whilst freeing up space on both my local machine and fastmail.fm
This means I have to transfer quite large volumes of mail every few months, importantly, keeping all tags, header info etc intact.
For this I use larch
and run the following code either locally (with a good internet connection) or on a remote server (usually having fast connection).
#!/bin/sh larch --from imaps://mail.messagingengine.com -u NAME@DOMAIN.COM -p PASSWORD \ --to imaps://imap.gmail.com -U NAME@gmail.com -P PASSWORD \ --from-folder 'INBOX/from_folder' --to-folder '[Gmail]/All Mail' |
This is specific for fastmail, so just change the server information over and the password. Yes, this probably isn’t very secure what with the passwords sitting in a shell script. YMMV.
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