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I am setting up Google Apps and need to replicate all my user email accounts (about 20 in total) within Google, then move all the mailboxes over, then change the MX records to point to Google's servers. All of that is fine, no question about that.

My issue is this: Let's assume that the domain is test.com and I own it. I want to create all the email accounts on Google that I currently have on my other provider. So I set up the first one - let's call it [email protected] - and add Bob as the user.

Then when I want to use the Mail Fetcher method, to retrieve all of Bob's emails still on the old server, I go in to Gmail's Account settings and fire up Mail Festcher...but it won't let me retrieve mail from [email protected] (the old address on the old server which still works because I haven't switched yet) because I have created [email protected] within Google Apps in preparation for my switch over. Any ideas?

I suppose I could create a different named account - eg [email protected] in Google, import all the emails from [email protected] and then call [email protected] an alias under [email protected] I just answered my own question? Is there a simpler, more elegant way of doing this?

Only about 4 users use IMAP and have files on the server...but their mailboxes are huge (a couple of GB) and our uplink is very slow, so the method of downloading them locally and then uploading to GMail will take ages....

Ideas?

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    Could you set up an alias to your old server? So that the old mailboxes could be made available under, e.g., [email protected]
    – Vidar S. Ramdal
    Commented Sep 25, 2013 at 20:45
  • Very cool idea that should work, shouldn't it?....Do you know how I might create the alias on the old server? (Host is Bluehost, they use Cpanel....had a quick look, not sure where I would create it...is it in the Zone Editor somewhere?)
    – Tony Lankester
    Commented Sep 25, 2013 at 21:00
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    Don't know much about Cpanel, but within the DNS settings you should be able to set up an alias record. Maybe someone with more DNS knowledge could chime in here. Also, check if you can use an existing Bluehost hostname for your email address, like [email protected] or similar.
    – Vidar S. Ramdal
    Commented Sep 25, 2013 at 21:35
  • Add a CNAME record for "old.test.com" that points at "test.com" These instructions from Cpanel may help: documentation.cpanel.net/display/ALD/…
    – Andrew Maiman
    Commented Oct 31, 2014 at 12:40

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When switching to Google Apps from another program or web service, you and your users can bring your existing mail, contacts, and calendar data with you. You have a variety of options for migrating data into Google Apps, depending on the size of your organization and the system you’re migrating from.

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