I recently moved my personal email from a self-managed Exim/Cyrus setup on a dedicated FreeBSD server to Gmail (Google Apps for Domains). This migration was motivated by a desire to reduce expenses, reduce time spent managing mail software and the importance of email (for me, personally) dropping to a level where I was willing to accept the risks inherent in outsourcing it. Details of the exact process I used to migrate mail are below.
Assumptions: An IMAP interface to your current email, basic comptency at managing DNS, and the ability to run the imapsync Perl script (built via FreeBSD ports in my case, but installation should be straightforward under most UNIX or Linux systems).
Read the rest of this entry »
