Hey guys,

as I was fed up with never having my emails at my girls place, I decided to migrate from this usual Outlook|.pst  get-mail-from-gmx-via-pop-situation to google mail (gmail) and IMAP.

Google provides a lot of space and – as one of the few providers – it provides full IMAP access for free… Means I can organize my mails as I did in Outlook. Basically the only thing I was worrying about was the fact that Outlook  itself really sucks when in use with IMAP. It’s damn slow! But – one URL away – the solution, called Thunderbird. I was using Thunderbird a lot, but due to syncing issues (ActiveSync with a Windows Mobile Phone) I finally gave up and migrated to Outlook. But now, as sync is working properly with funambol, I finally switched back to Thunderbird. And the lately released version 3 has – guess what – special support for google mail. Great, isn’t it?

Last thing to work out – is it possible to have a local backup…? Oh yes, it is. Basically it’s configurable on a folder basis, so I’ll have my emails available on my local PC even when the internet is broken (as it is sometimes – thanks to my current provider KabelBW) or as soon as I have access to gmail. And with Thunderbird as mail client I can use enigmail like I did a looong time before. Now I everything’s crypted here. Weird.

After I finshed the migration I googled about some enigmail stuff, and I found some guys had already written a good guide how to change to gmail/TB/enigmal…Great stuff… So, rather than writing the same stuff again, have a look at

http://www.rayacayan.com/the-web-mail-migration-project-procedure/

Regards!