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Problem migrating away from Gmail


From Matt Jacob <matt at mattjacob dot com>
Subject Problem migrating away from Gmail
Date Sat, 18 Oct 2008 16:05:50 -0700

Hi,

I'm trying to migrate from Gmail to Tuffmail (don't know which IMAP server they're running), but I'm having some problems. For some reason, 13408 messages aren't making it over, but I don't know why. Perhaps you can shed some light on my problem?

Here's the command I'm using:

imapsync --host1 imap.gmail.com --ssl1 --port1 993 \ --host2 mail.mxes.net --ssl2 --port2 993 \ --user1 USERNAME1 --passfile1 ./password1.txt \
--user2 USERNAME2 --passfile2 ./password2.txt \
--folder "[Gmail]/All Mail" --regextrans2 's/\[Gmail\]/Gmail/' \
--useheader 'Message-Id' --skipsize

Here's the initial sizing. Note that when I look at the 'All Mail' folder in Thunderbird, it's showing 57408 messages.


++++ Calculating sizes ++++
From Folder [[Gmail]/All Mail]                  Size: 940482155 Messages: 59403
Total size: 940482155
Total messages: 59403
Time : 350 s
++++ Calculating sizes ++++
To   Folder [Gmail/All Mail]                    Size:         0 Messages:     0
Total size: 0
Total messages: 0
Time : 0 s

And here's the final output at the end. Sure enough, only 45994 messages made it over, according to Thunderbird. You can see that the job took a long time (it was running for 14+ hours).


++++ Statistics ++++
Time : 52375 sec
Messages transferred : 45995 Messages skipped : 0
Total bytes transferred: 744403484
Total bytes skipped : 0
Total bytes error : 2068
Detected 1 errors

So now what? How can I get 100% of my messages transferred? What happened to the other 13000 messages or so?


Matt

P.S. Thanks to Gilles for writing this program and offering a mailing list for support.