Google eases email migration to Gmail/Google Apps

This is interesting, though it's obviously geared only towards enterprises at the moment: Not long ago, we launched an email migration tool that letsadministrators move email from their existing IMAP mail systems toGoogle Apps, so users didn't have to leave their old mail behind. Sincethen, more than a hundred million messages have been migrated. But thissolution didn't solve the whole problem. If your existing solutiondidn't support IMAP, you were out of luck. Today, we're excited to announce the new Google Apps Email Migration API, which can move email from anywhere– not just IMAP systems – to the Premier, Education or Partner Editionsof Google Apps. If you need to migrate email from your users' desktops,migrate email from a server not supported by the IMAP migration tool,or do a push migration because of your security policies, a tool builton this API could be the perfect answer. This API is just the latest in a stream (read, torrent) of innovations we've rolled out this year for Google Apps email. Related: Google Apps Email Migration API Developer's Guide

Paul Thurrott

November 19, 2007

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This is interesting, though it's obviously geared only towards enterprises at the moment:

Not long ago, we launched an email migration tool that letsadministrators move email from their existing IMAP mail systems toGoogle Apps, so users didn't have to leave their old mail behind. Sincethen, more than a hundred million messages have been migrated. But thissolution didn't solve the whole problem. If your existing solutiondidn't support IMAP, you were out of luck.

Today, we're excited to announce the new Google Apps Email Migration API, which can move email from anywhere– not just IMAP systems – to the Premier, Education or Partner Editionsof Google Apps. If you need to migrate email from your users' desktops,migrate email from a server not supported by the IMAP migration tool,or do a push migration because of your security policies, a tool builton this API could be the perfect answer.

This API is just the latest in a stream (read, torrent) of innovations we've rolled out this year for Google Apps email.

Related: Google Apps Email Migration API Developer's Guide 

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Paul Thurrott

Paul Thurrott is senior technical analyst for Windows IT Pro. He writes the SuperSite for Windows, a weekly editorial for Windows IT Pro UPDATE, and a daily Windows news and information newsletter called WinInfo Daily UPDATE.

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