[OT?] Moving to GMail

[Zachary Stern]

I know this doesn't solve your problem, but in general, I think the real
strength of gmail is its user interface. If you use Kmail to access it, you
may as well just keep your old email address.

On 2/8/07, Chuck Peters <cp at ccil.org> wrote:
>
> On 2/7/07, Amichai Rotman <amichai at iglu.org.il> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am trying to move my old mail from KMail to GMail.
>
> I am doing something similar with a bit of mail since the mail admin
> just migrated our system and screwed up my forwarding - not very good
> admins...  I have a script running as I write this.
>
> > I configured GMail in KMail - but it couldn't authenticate.
> >
> > I also have access to an IMAP account, so I add the IMAP account  to
> both
> > KMail and Thunderbird 1.5 so I can transfer mail from KMail to IMAP and
> then
> > from IMAP in Thunderbird to GMail.
>
> I think you could setup a filter and forward with either Thunderbird
> or Kmail, but you might have problems trying that with more than a few
> dozen emails - gmail might think you are spaming or your mail server
> won't allow it.
>
> > Is there an easy way to do this?
>
> Do you know the old joke about UNIX is user friendly, it's just choosy
> about who its friends are.  It is easy if you know how, have the right
> tools and have the right services available.  Since you are running
> Ubuntu you can use procmail, formail, your mail folders should be in
> mbox format and you have some way to send mail.
>
> The short version of what I am doing is:
> Spam filter and forward mail with procmail - and it has some loop
> protection to attempt to avoid those nasty problems.
>
> I should warn against trying what I am doing without knowing more
> about how you send mail...  You should do some tests...  If your mail
> server or smtp server doesn't allow it - you might have problems with
> gmail accepting mail directly from your machine.  The method I use
> sends mail from a exim4 mail server with correctly configured DNS...
>
> One issue I heard about while surfing for solutions was that if I send
> a lot of mail quickly gmail will think I am spaming and start
> rejecting the mail.  So I wanted to figure out a way to send the 2000
> messages slowly.
>
> First I split the messages to individual files with a modified version
> of a script I found at
> http://www.mail-archive.com/clamav-users@lists.clamav.net/msg23366.html.
> I can upload it somewhere if you like.
>
> Then create a list of the files created:
> For example
> ls > list
>
> You will need a .procmailrc and .forward files which forward the mail...
> cp at earth:~$ cat .forward
> |/usr/bin/procmail
>
> And a minimal .procmailrc file that doesn't include loop protection.
>
>
> SHELL=/bin/sh
> MAILDIR=$HOME/mail
> PMDIR=$HOME/.procmail
> LOGFILE=$PMDIR/log
>
> :0
> *
> !example at gmail.com
>
>
> Then write a little script to send the files slowly - it waits 5
> seconds before sending the next message in the list.
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> for item in `cat list`
> do
>
> cat $item | formail -s procmail
> echo "$item"
> sleep 5
>
> done
>
>
> I should note I still don't have the .procmailrc setup the way I want,
> my recipe isn't forwarding the lists with loop protection.
>
>
> Chuck
>
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