Migrate email from twc.com email to Gmail

[timeshifter]

Need to migrate email from a Spectrum email account to Gmail. The email is an @twc.com email, a remnant of when they were Time Warner Cable. The user has about filled up his 5GB allotment. Most of that is in about 40 folders.

I was envisioning setting up Gmail to "pull" the email over by acting like an IMAP client. But now that I try it, it looks like it's only POP, so that would only pull the Inbox, which wouldn't help much.

Only way I can think of now is to get all the mail into Outlook, then drag and drop over into Gmail. Seems crude and tedious, but I'm out of ideas.

Any thoughts?

 

[thecomputerguy]

Pretty sure you can use migrationwiz to connect to the imap servers and do it all for you.

 

[britechguy]

If you've only got POP access on the source side, the vast bulk of the messages are long gone from the server anyway.

In an instance like this, I'd simply neuter the existing email client from accessing the account (or just leave it until it can't) and strongly recommend to the client that they start completely afresh under Gmail.

You can export/import contacts generally with ease, but the old emails just remain in whatever client they were using for archival reference purposes.

POP access should have been abandoned by email service providers years ago and existing POP users forced to change over to IMAP, Exchange, or any one of the modern access methods that allows access from multiple devices and where you can just dump a given e-mail client at will, set yourself up in another, and it's as though nothing ever happened. I just will never understand why this has not happened. God knows there have been many, many forced conversions of many sorts as specific technologies have been intentionally abandoned. POP is long overdue for that fate.

 

[Markverhyden]

How big is the local store? I've just dragged and dropped folders from the old account in the client to the new account in the client. 10 folders at a time shouldn't cause anything to not synch.

 

[timeshifter]

If you've only got POP access on the source side

The mail server supports IMAP. I was referring to Gmail’s connection to it only offers POP.

 

[britechguy]

That's odd. I'm not saying you're wrong, but my experience with Gmail has always been that it favors IMAP, in all cases, when it is available.

 

[timeshifter]

Gmail

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[britechguy]

Which, if I saw that, would suggest to me that the other account has an email service provider that only offers POP. There are still a few of those dinosaurs around.

But I don't have the time to test that out, I'm just offering it as a theory, since it's clear from the screenshot that it already has the info on the actual account to be accessed.

P.S. I didn't realize that twc, spectrum, and all the various roadrunners were now merged into one big circle of hell. My last time trying to deal with a rr issue was one of the worst and most bizarre email experiences I've ever had. Godspeed to you!

 

[timeshifter]

The twc.com email most definitely supports IMAP and has for a long long time. Just tried on a GoDaddy email and Gmail only presents POP as an option.

 

[timeshifter]

Pretty sure you can use migrationwiz to connect to the imap servers and do it all for you.

They support IMAP source. Destination support includes G Suite and IMAP. Guess I'd probably have to configure the Gmail destination as an IMAP destination.

 

[Markverhyden]

I think that happens with GMail because they want it to be a one way street, which is what POP is. Otherwise they'd have huge amounts of additional traffic doing IMAP syncs.

 

[britechguy]

I think that happens with GMail because they want it to be a one way street, which is what POP is. Otherwise they'd have huge amounts of additional traffic doing IMAP syncs.

Never thought about that. And if this sort of sync is a one-shot affair, which it would be for migration, anything that's on the server is all that could be snagged regardless of the access method. You're essentially just trying to copy over what's on one email server to another when you're doing it, not keep them in sync perpetually.