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[Magic Speller]

Hi,

Is anyone still here?

It looks like I'm going to have to switch ISPs--not because I wanted
to; I've been an XMission customer for a long, long time.

I don't have a lot of XMission mail, but I would like to forward what
I have to another account so that it's accessible there. Does anyone
know of a way to do this, short of forwarding each message
individually?

--
Thanks,
Keith

[Jason Earl]

On Tue, Oct 04 2011, Magic Speller wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is anyone still here?
>
> It looks like I'm going to have to switch ISPs--not because I wanted
> to; I've been an XMission customer for a long, long time.

My condolences.

> I don't have a lot of XMission mail, but I would like to forward what
> I have to another account so that it's accessible there. Does anyone
> know of a way to do this, short of forwarding each message
> individually?

I use imapsync for that sort of thing. With a bit of finagling it
usually can get email from one host to another (assuming they both speak
imap). I don't know if it runs on Windows.

Jason

[Magic Speller]

On Tue, 04 Oct 2011 20:42:22 -0600, Jason Earl
<je...@notengoamigos.org> wrote:

>I use imapsync for that sort of thing. With a bit of finagling it
>usually can get email from one host to another (assuming they both speak
>imap). I don't know if it runs on Windows.

Thanks, Jason. It looks like a good program I was unaware of. Looking
at the cost of the software, though, I decided to try another route. I
access both XMission and my main Fastmail account in Thunderbird, and
I found that I could just drag and drop messages from a folder in
XMission to a folder in Fastmail. It was easy to do and went quickly
because of the smaill number of messages I had.

Thanks again.

--
Keith

[Jason Earl]

On Thu, Oct 06 2011, Magic Speller wrote:

> On Tue, 04 Oct 2011 20:42:22 -0600, Jason Earl
> <je...@notengoamigos.org> wrote:
>
>>I use imapsync for that sort of thing. With a bit of finagling it
>>usually can get email from one host to another (assuming they both speak
>>imap). I don't know if it runs on Windows.
>
> Thanks, Jason. It looks like a good program I was unaware of. Looking
> at the cost of the software, though, I decided to try another route.

Cost of the software? The imapsync that I use is Free Software, I
simply apt-get install it on my Linux boxes.

> I access both XMission and my main Fastmail account in Thunderbird,
> and I found that I could just drag and drop messages from a folder in
> XMission to a folder in Fastmail. It was easy to do and went quickly
> because of the smaill number of messages I had.

My email store weighs in at around 5G. When I want to move it (or back
it up, for that matter), I need something a bit more heavy duty.
Depending on what I need to do I tend to use tools like imapsync, or
offlineimap, or even fetchmail. It did not even occur to me to suggest
simply using Thunderbird. I hope I did not cause you to was too much of
your time.

Sorry about that,
Jason