{"id":181,"date":"2010-02-07T22:38:20","date_gmt":"2010-02-07T21:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/?p=181"},"modified":"2010-02-10T00:46:28","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T23:46:28","slug":"shifting-to-googlemail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/?p=181","title":{"rendered":"Shifting to Googlemail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I run my own mailserver and Store-and-Forward server. But getting an iphone means the pain of getting IMAP working or worse still, using POPand having a split-brain email with the iphone and desktop is just getting old.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;ll dump everything into Googlemail. But&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>I use a load of aliases for incoming mail on my trusty Mercury server. I&#8217;m going to need to redo all my alias entries in Mercury to point to my Googlemail account. The mail server will be running a bit longer.<\/p>\n<p>I may just retire Mercury if I can remember how <a href=\"http:\/\/townx.org\/blog\/elliot\/adding_aliases_to_postfix_on_ubuntu\">postfix aliases<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.postfix.org\/VIRTUAL_README.html#virtual_alias_domains\">virtual alias domains<\/a> work. Postfix runs on the S&amp;F box. If I write my aliases out there, it can route my mail for me. It will basically be an MX placeholder and hold no actually mailboxes. Mmmm<\/p>\n<p>Mercury is GUI. It is stable but needs Windows. I&#8217;m tempted to see if there is a hosted alternative or a postfix aliases gui&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>Uploading mail to Gmail via IMAP just keeps failing. There is a useful tool called <a href=\"http:\/\/marklyon.org\/gmail\/instruction.htm\">GML<\/a> which just might make this work for me. First though I need to run Thunderbird and add a <a href=\"https:\/\/nic-nac-project.org\/~kaosmos\/mboximport-en.html\">plug-in<\/a> to put my mail into an MBox file&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>But in the end I have dropped all my mail into Thunderbird, created an IMAP account and am shifting messages in blocks of 20. That actually works&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I run my own mailserver and Store-and-Forward server. But getting an iphone means the pain of getting IMAP working or &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/?p=181\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[31,196,197,57,45,138,140],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simkin.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}