ryara

The university where I study has decided to switch from it’s own mail system to e-GO, more oftenly referenced to as Google Apps. Although the full (forced) migration won’t take place until october, you can choose to migrate now. However the migration isn’t fully automated, your old emails won’t be imported to the new system automatically. Therefore I decided to describe how I did to migrate.

First log in to the student portal. Then use the menu to go to Settings >> e-GO. Set a password and then click the activation button.
Before you start with the next part make sure that your account is activated.

Now that your account is activated the next (and final) task is to import all your old emails. For this you’ll need two things: an email client that supports imap/pop3, and can export messages to mbox format, and Google GMail Loader (GML). I used evolution for the mail client. As for GML, if you’re on linux you can probably find it in your package mangager, and if you’re on windows just download the binary from the site.
Now you have to export all the mails. In evolution this is done by selecting all the mails in a folder, right-clicking on them and selecting “Save as…”. When you’ve saved all your folders fire up GML.
Now you need setup GML before you import your messages. Start with setting the SMTP server to one listed here [Link removed - nobody should need this any more]. Then set the your email address to [you]@migrate.student.liu.se. DO NOT set “Message Type” to “Mail I sent”, because if you do those mails will be shown as sent by [you]@migrate.student.liu.se and not [you]@student.liu.se, and will therefore not show up in Sent Mail.
Lastly set the email file to one of those that you exported earlier and press “Send To GMail”. Wait, and then repeat for each of the files that you exported.
When done you can log in to e-GO and verify that you’ve got all the mails, and don’t worry if there’s a few less then you uploaded, this is because of GMail’s “converstation” feature.

There are some downsides with this method:
1. The timestamps of the mails will be set to the time when you uploaded them.
2. Sent mails will show upp in both Sent mail and Inbox.

At least to me those are minor issues, that you can live with.

http://ryara.net has got a new fresh dark on light design, and also a long needed resize of the logo (it’s smaller now). And thanks to the robust skeleton I used when I first wrote the site it wasn’t that much work. The main reason for the redesign was to get a working system for adding projects to the site, so in the following weeks I’ll add some projects to the site