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On 8 Apr 2025 at 11:20:04 BST, "TimH" <thnews@poboxmolar.com.invalid> wrote:

On 7 Apr 2025 at 10:12:17rC>pm BST, "D.M. Procida" <daniele-at-vurt-dot-org@invalid.com> wrote:

I have a few GB of email locally for an account, and that address is now on a
new IMAP server.

What I want to happen is Mail to write all that email, exactly as it was, to >> the new IMAP provider, including all the all sent mail, and the mail arranged
into different mailboxes.

I thought that changing the server details on the account in Mail would do the
trick, but I just ended up with a completely empty mail account (I got it back
quickly enough after resetting the server details).

Daniele

There is a really handy tool for this, called imapsync. Maybe your new provider is aware of it; mine recommended it and had it available on their server.

I'm back again moving another bunch of mailboxes.

imapsync is like software from another age, when a person made it, and then
you gave them money for it, and then you owned it.

The website just adds to the aura of nostalgia.

I love https://imapsync.lamiral.info/X/, it takes me back 30 years, to a time when you might imagine entering your email credentials including password into a website...

Daniele
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