Not directly related to gAttach! or yAttach!, but a friend asked today if it would be possible for him to move his emails from his Google Apps account to a new Yahoo! Small Business Mail account.
It's not a straightforward operation, but it is possible. The main sticking points are that Google only uses POP3 and IMAP with SSL on non-standard ports and that Yahoo! has no IMAP support whatsoever.
I thought I'd post a mini how-to on the blog in case it's ever of use to somebody else in the future:
- Enable POP3 access in the Settings screen in your Google Apps mail account;
- Sign up for an ordinary Gmail account (i.e. not a Google Apps account);
- Configure your Gmail account to pick up mail from your Apps account using POP3. Ensure you specify the non-standard port number and to use SSL as per these instructions;
- Wait for your Gmail inbox to be filled with all your Google Apps messages;
- Use this service to move all the messages from your Gmail inbox to your personal Yahoo! Mail account;
- Once you receive a message in your personal Yahoo! Mail inbox telling you that the transfer is complete, move the messages from the newly-created folder to your Inbox;
- Configure your Yahoo! Small Business Mail account to pick up messages from your Yahoo! Mail personal account using POP3. Note that you'll most likely have to use an IP address for the mail server (plus.pop.mail.yahoo.com = 209.191.108.191, pop.mail.yahoo.com = 206.190.53.11)as it doesn't seem to accept yahoo.com domain names;
- Click "Check Mail" in your Small Business Mail account and wait for all the messages to be transferred to your inbox;
- Delete the POP3 account from your Small Business settings;
- Delete the messages from your Personal inbox.
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