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  • From: Scott <catfather AT donpoo.net>
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] bright ideas on transferring email?
  • Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 21:50:25 -0400


On Sep 14, 2004, at 8:15 PM, Sasha Akhavi wrote:

Hi folks - somebody must know how to do this (possibly everyone but me). I've occasionally had the need to transfer email that I've accumulated in a client on one machine to another one. Currently I want to transfer a couple mailboxes' worth from Apple's mail program on my wife's iBook, which we used during an extended trip, to Eudora on our iMac. Previously, I've had to export all the emails to a single text file if I wanted to save them at all after losing access to the previous computer. Naturally, then I lose any indexing ability, etc. Anyone got a better idea? Sasha

Use IMAP. You can drag folders or individual messages from a local mailbox into a server side IMAP mailbox. Then pick up that mail from any IMAP capable client. You can do this with your existing .Mac account or, if you don't want to waste the space on your .mac account, get a free IMAP account with 10MB of room from http://fastmail.fm/

BTW, I would recommend the fastmail.fm service to anyone who is looking for an online mail setup. It's a very clean interface and has both IMAP and POP3 access. Paid accounts get vast amounts of space along with server side filters, spam protection, virus protection, multiple aliases, etc etc. They even keep a blog detailing server changes and any unexpected outages at http://blog.fastmail.fm/

For the geeks among us, fastmail.fm runs on Cyrus IMAPd, Postfix, clamd and SpamAssassin with a custom written web frontend. The guys who run the server are very active on the cyrus-info mailing list and have provided many good patches and enhancements back to the Cyrus project.

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Scott





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