I managed to complete the migration successfully a...

2007-07-16T23:59:00.000+01:00

I managed to complete the migration successfully a few weeks ago. All the messages were migrated successfully however there were a couple of small problems.

Firstly was the fact that I had downgraded my Fastmail account to a free one, which had the impact of enforcing a bandwidth limit on transfers. About 90% through the migration I received an error message telling me Google couldn't access Fastmail. Trying again 24 hours later resolved the problem.

A nice touch there was, re-attempting the migration did not duplicate the already migrated messages - it identified the dups and did not re-migrate them.

The second issue I have encountered is in the way attachments are handled. I haven't looked into this in much detail but it looks like a lot of the migrated attachments have lost their mimetypes and file extensions, so a lot of them (not all) are just named winmail.dat. Not sure what pattern there is to it, but will look into it at a later date.

Apart from those issues, the whole process went very smoothly and I'm now ready to ditch Fastmail and migrate my life to the google-cloud. Oh and the other cool thing is you can downgrade your Google apps account back to a free account after you have fininished the migration :-)

I've been thinking of doing the same thing, but I ...

2007-07-16T20:28:00.000+01:00

I've been thinking of doing the same thing, but I am not sure if fastmail's IMAP services are compatible with Google's migration tool (apparently not all are). I'd be very interested in knowing how this turned out for you.

2007-07-16T20:27:00.000+01:00

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