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  Transfer all email from one IMAP provider to another D.M. Procida <daniele-at-vurt-dot-org@invalid.com> - 2025-04-07 21:12 +0000
    Re: Transfer all email from one IMAP provider to another TimS <tim@streater.me.uk> - 2025-04-07 21:24 +0000
    Re: Transfer all email from one IMAP provider to another Bruce <07.013@scorecrow.com> - 2025-04-07 23:18 +0100
    Re: Transfer all email from one IMAP provider to another Jörg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> - 2025-04-08 10:29 +0200
    Re: Transfer all email from one IMAP provider to another TimH <thnews@poboxmolar.com.invalid> - 2025-04-08 10:20 +0000
      Re: Transfer all email from one IMAP provider to another D.M. Procida <daniele-at-vurt-dot-org@invalid.com> - 2025-09-27 20:13 +0000

#180822 — Transfer all email from one IMAP provider to another

I have a few GB of email locally for an account, and that address is now on a
new IMAP server.

What I want to happen is Mail to write all that email, exactly as it was, to
the new IMAP provider, including all the all sent mail, and the mail arranged
into different mailboxes.

I thought that changing the server details on the account in Mail would do the
trick, but I just ended up with a completely empty mail account (I got it back
quickly enough after resetting the server details).

Daniele

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#180823

On 7 Apr 2025 at 22:12:17 BST, "D.M. Procida"
<daniele-at-vurt-dot-org@invalid.com> wrote:

> I have a few GB of email locally for an account, and that address is now on a
> new IMAP server.
> 
> What I want to happen is Mail to write all that email, exactly as it was, to
> the new IMAP provider, including all the all sent mail, and the mail arranged
> into different mailboxes.
> 
> I thought that changing the server details on the account in Mail would do the
> trick, but I just ended up with a completely empty mail account (I got it back
> quickly enough after resetting the server details).

Does Mail have no Export facility? I'd export it (to mbox format, if the
exporter is any good) and then re-import it.

-- 
Tim

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#180824

On 07/04/2025 22:12, D.M. Procida wrote:
> I have a few GB of email locally for an account, and that address is now on a
> new IMAP server.
> 
> What I want to happen is Mail to write all that email, exactly as it was, to
> the new IMAP provider, including all the all sent mail, and the mail arranged
> into different mailboxes.
> 
> I thought that changing the server details on the account in Mail would do the
> trick, but I just ended up with a completely empty mail account (I got it back
> quickly enough after resetting the server details).

Create the folders on the IMAP server.

Go into first local folder in Mail and cmd-A to select all messages (in 
that folder)

Drag and drop the selection into the desired IMAP folder.

Wait a few mins for it to finish copying before repeating for the next 
folder. (There's no progress indicator iirc)

-- 
Bruce Horrocks
Hampshire, England

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#180826

On 07.04.25 23:12, D.M. Procida wrote:
> I have a few GB of email locally for an account, and that address is now on a
> new IMAP server.
> 
> What I want to happen is Mail to write all that email, exactly as it was, to
> the new IMAP provider, including all the all sent mail, and the mail arranged
> into different mailboxes.
> 
> I thought that changing the server details on the account in Mail would do the
> trick, but I just ended up with a completely empty mail account (I got it back
> quickly enough after resetting the server details).

Most servers support drag and drop across accounts/providers. Make sure
you have the new and the old account in the same window and you can move
all mails or even better you copy them from the old one to the new one.

Jörg

-- 
"Roma locuta, causa finita." (Augustinus)

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#180827

On 7 Apr 2025 at 10:12:17 pm BST, "D.M. Procida"
<daniele-at-vurt-dot-org@invalid.com> wrote:

> I have a few GB of email locally for an account, and that address is now on a
> new IMAP server.
> 
> What I want to happen is Mail to write all that email, exactly as it was, to
> the new IMAP provider, including all the all sent mail, and the mail arranged
> into different mailboxes.
> 
> I thought that changing the server details on the account in Mail would do the
> trick, but I just ended up with a completely empty mail account (I got it back
> quickly enough after resetting the server details).
> 
> Daniele

There is a really handy tool for this, called imapsync. Maybe your new
provider is aware of it; mine recommended it and had it available on their
server.
-- 
TimH
pull tooth to reply by email

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#181987

On 8 Apr 2025 at 11:20:04 BST, "TimH" <thnews@poboxmolar.com.invalid> wrote:

> On 7 Apr 2025 at 10:12:17 pm BST, "D.M. Procida"
> <daniele-at-vurt-dot-org@invalid.com> wrote:
> 
>> I have a few GB of email locally for an account, and that address is now on a
>> new IMAP server.
>> 
>> What I want to happen is Mail to write all that email, exactly as it was, to
>> the new IMAP provider, including all the all sent mail, and the mail arranged
>> into different mailboxes.
>> 
>> I thought that changing the server details on the account in Mail would do the
>> trick, but I just ended up with a completely empty mail account (I got it back
>> quickly enough after resetting the server details).
>> 
>> Daniele
> 
> There is a really handy tool for this, called imapsync. Maybe your new
> provider is aware of it; mine recommended it and had it available on their
> server.

I'm back again moving another bunch of mailboxes.

imapsync is like software from another age, when a person made it, and then
you gave them money for it, and then you owned it.

The website just adds to the aura of nostalgia.

I love https://imapsync.lamiral.info/X/, it takes me back 30 years, to a time
when you might imagine entering your email credentials including password into
a website...

Daniele

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