Covert User mailbox in to a Groups collaborative inbox

Ancymon Shaji

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Hi,

Could I check how to convert a User mailbox in to a Groups collaborative inbox please.

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Ancymon

Ross Scroggs

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Sep 13, 2022, 12:23:55 PM9/13/22

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Ancymon,

This will take several steps; you should test with a sample user and group.

Suppose the address of interest is ad...@domain.com

# Change the address of the user ad...@domain.com to xxx...@domain.com

gam update user ad...@domain.com email xxx...@domain.com

# Delete the alias created in the previous step

gam delete alias user ad...@domain.com

# Create the group ad...@domain.com; supply additional settings as desired

gam create group ad...@domain.com enablecollaborativeinbox true

# Archive user messages into group

gam user xxx...@domain.com archive messages ad...@domain.com doit

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James SEYMOUR

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Dec 12, 2022, 12:47:23 AM12/12/22

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Hi Ross,

When I tested the last command (only), I got an error message.

gam user <User Email> archive messages <Group Email> doit
Getting all Messages for <User Email>
Got 201 Messages...
User: <Group Email>, Archive 201 Messages

ERROR: memoryview: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'

Running without the doit, looks OK. It's only when you add the doit.

I'm updated to GAMADV-XTD3 6.29.18.

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Ross Scroggs

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James,

Fixed in 6.29.20

Ross

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James SEYMOUR

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Thanks, Ross.

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Ross Scroggs

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Show: gam version

Show the command you are executing

Ross

On Fri, Sep 6, 2024 at 10:47 AM Aaron Helfand <aaron....@joseandres.com> wrote:

Hi all,

Sorry to revitalize this thread... I am trying to accomplish this task. Is it no longer possible with the API? I keep getting an error that "archive" is not a valid argument for gam?

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Ross Scroggs

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You're using Standard GAM, it has no command to archive messages.

See: https://github.com/taers232c/GAMADV-XTD3/wiki/How-to-Upgrade-from-Standard-GAM

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GAM 6.58 - https://jaylee.us/gam - pyinstaller
Python 3.11.3 64-bit final
google-api-python-client 2.86.0
Windows 10 10.0.22631 SP0 Multiprocessor Free AMD64

Command = gam user abc...@domain.com archive messages ci.a...@domain.com doit

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Aaron Helfand

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That was the sticky wicket Ross. Thank you for catching this. updated and resolved. Though one day I am looking forward to hopping on Zoom with you :)

Aaron Helfand

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Good morning Ross - I was able to run this command and it worked quite well until it got to a mail message that is what I presume to be over 25MB and then the transfer stopped mid way through. Is there a way to prevent this? or if it is impossible to xfer anything over 25MB, is there a way to tell the command to skip and keep going?

Below is the error.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "__init__.py", line 75873, in ProcessGAMCommand
File "__init__.py", line 68267, in archiveMessages
File "__init__.py", line 5256, in callGAPI
File "googleapiclient\discovery.py", line 1205, in method
googleapiclient.errors.MediaUploadSizeError: Media larger than: 26214400

Thanks,

Aaron

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AAron,

Get 6.80.21 and retry the command.

Report your results.

Ross

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Vini Bettega

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Sep 13, 2024, 6:31:06 AM9/13/24

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Hi Ross

This command saved me!

# Archive user messages into group

gam user xxx...@domain.com archive messages ad...@domain.com doit

I'm using a Mac and GAMADV on Google Cloud Shell

But I have 2 problems

1st: Very large mailboxes, the process is very slow and the google cloud shell get timeout.

Question on 1st problem, if I deploy GAM locally on my computer, will it timeout?

2nd: Messages get duplicated when I run the command again to finish the mailbox archive.

Any solution for the 2nd problem?

Thanks in advance

Vini

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1st: You can use the same project on your Mac that you are using on the cloud shell; it will not timeout.

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2nd: I don't know

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Aaron Helfand

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Sep 13, 2024, 11:58:34 AM9/13/24

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Ross,

This is working now. It is skipping over the large email and moving on. Thank you for the update!

Agree with Vini, the process is very slow to migrate large inboxes. I think I am 3hours in on my test and only at 6000/15000...:(

Vini Bettega

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Sep 13, 2024, 4:44:42 PM9/13/24

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thank you for the offer Ross, helpful as always!

Update

I deployed GAM locally on my Mac and it is scaping the large files, I think I can ignore that. from 15000 emails to "lose" one I don't think it will be a problem.
My only problem now are the very large mailboxes, we have leavers that worked in the company for 6+y and it has 5GB of emails even locally GAM is failing at some point, returning 404 group doesn't exist.

Aaron Helfand

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I received the 404 error as well today when it got to A little over 8000 of the 15,000 it was trying to archive.

I didn’t report it because I thought it was related to me removing the group from the Global directories list simultaneously but now that you experienced the same thing I no longer think they are correlated

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