Re: imapsync hangs when copying gmail to google apps

[Jay Strauss <me at heyjay dot com>]

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Jay Strauss <me at heyjay dot com> wrote:
> Bonjour (that's the extent of what I remember from 2 yrs of high
> school French :),
>
> I'm trying to move my gmail account to google apps.  (Astonishing that
> Google has not made a simple utiltity to do this, since I imagine
> there are many gmail users trying to do this).
>
> So I'm using the following, but nothing happens.  I just hang.  Even
> weirder is it used to work the other day.  I'm running upon a ubuntu
> 8.10 install with perl 5.10 (as you can see below)
>
> (usernames changed to protect the innocent :)
>
> jstrauss at black:~$ imapsync --version
> 1.252
>
> jstrauss at black:~$ cat gmailt
> imapsync --host1 imap.gmail.com \
> --port1 993 --user1 from_name at gmail dot com \
> --passfile1 ./mailpass --ssl1 \
> --host2 imap.gmail.com \
> --port2 993 --user2 me at to_domain dot com \
> --passfile2 ./mailpass --ssl2 \
> --regexmess 's/Delivered-To: from_name\ at gmail dot com/Delivered-To:
> me\ at to_domain dot com/g' \
> --regexmess 's/<from_name\ at gmail dot com>/<me\ at to_domain dot com>/g' \
> --regexmess 's/Subject:(\s*)\n/Subject: (no--subject)$1\n/g' \
> --regexmess 's/Subject: ([Rr][Ee]):(\s*)\n/Subject: $1: (no--subject)$2\n/g'
>
> When it runs I get:
>
> jstrauss at black:~$ ./gmailt
> $RCSfile: imapsync,v $ $Revision: 1.252 $ $Date: 2008/05/08 02:30:17 $
> Here is a [linux] system (Linux black 2.6.27-9-generic #1 SMP Thu Nov
> 20 21:57:00 UTC 2008 i686)
> with perl 5.10.0 and the module Mail::IMAPClient version used here is 2.2.9
> Command line used :
> /usr/bin/imapsync --host1 imap.gmail.com --port1 993 --user1
> from_name at gmail dot com --passfile1 ./mailpass --ssl1 --host2
> imap.gmail.com --port2 993 --user2 me at to_domain dot com --passfile2
> ./mailpass --ssl2 --regexmess s/Delivered-To:
> from_name\ at gmail dot com/Delivered-To: me\ at to_domain dot com/g --regexmess
> s/<from_name\ at gmail dot com>/<me\ at to_domain dot com>/g --regexmess
> s/Subject:(\s*)\n/Subject: (no--subject)$1\n/g --regexmess s/Subject:
> ([Rr][Ee]):(\s*)\n/Subject: $1: (no--subject)$2\n/g
> Turned ON syncinternaldates, will set the internal dates on host2 same as host1.
> TimeZone :[CST]
> Will try to use CRAM-MD5 authentication on host1
> Will try to use CRAM-MD5 authentication on host2
> From imap server [imap.gmail.com] port [993] user [from_name at gmail dot com]
> To   imap server [imap.gmail.com] port [993] user [me at to_domain dot com]
> Banner : No banner
> Host imap.gmail.com says it has NO CAPABILITY for AUTHENTICATE CRAM-MD5
>
> Then it just sits and does nothing.  No screen output, nothing.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks
> Jay
>

Nevermind, I just noticed I'm using an old version, so I versioned up
to 1.267 and it seems to be working now.

Not sure why it worked before and then not, but seems to be going now.

Thanks
Jay