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. <div> On 2/8/07, Chuck Peters <<a href="mailto:cp@ccil.org">cp@ccil.org</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On 2/7/07, Amichai Rotman <<a href="mailto:amichai@iglu.org.il">amichai@iglu.org.il</a>> 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 <a href="http://www.mail-archive.com/clamav-users@lists.clamav.net/msg23366.html"> http://www.mail-archive.com/clamav-users@lists.clamav.net/msg23366.html</a>. 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@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@<a href="http://gmail.com">gmail.com</a> 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 -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users"> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div> -- Zach Stern <a href="http://rollerskatejamms.110mb.com">http://rollerskatejamms.110mb.com</a> (Its kinda crappy at the moment)