Started using more than one gmail account now (without forwarding because I need separate inboxes) but send email so common addresses, so I wanted to sync my contacts. The solution I settled with was using Shared Groups that can (surprise) share a contact group across accounts. The least problematic approach (to avoid duplicates) seems to be to create a new group, share that, and put any contacts that need to be shared into that group.
Month: January 2015
Migrate all email from IMAP server to Gmail using OfflineIMAP
OfflineIMAP (github, website) – a great way to migrate email (docs here. Just moved my email from my webhost IMAP-server to a gmail account.
I had some problems connecting to gmail until I enabled “less secure apps” to access my account at https://www.google.com/settings/security/lesssecureapps. Also, Gmail automatically blocked my first access, so I recieved an email that I had to respond to (click a link and verify that it actually was me that tried to access my email – good feature).
Also, OfflineIMAP might complain about unknown certificate fingerprints and print them out. I just added them to the servers that needed them and hoped nobody had manipulated them.
Here is a template for migrating for future reference.
# Offlineimap sample configuration file
[general]
metadata = ~/.offlineimap
accounts = migration
ui = TTYUI
[Account migration]
localrepository = gmail-trg
remoterepository = imap-src
# use sqlite backend rather than plain text
status_backend = sqlite
[Repository imap-src]
type = IMAP
remotehost = imap.yourdomain.com
ssl = yes
remoteport = 993
remoteuser = imap.username
remotepass = imap.password
usecompression = no
maxconnections = 1
# don't write any changes to the imap server
readonly = True
# you might need to fill this in if you use SSL
#cert_fingerprint =
[Repository gmail-trg]
# You can use Gmail as type, by I had some problems connecting.
type = IMAP
remotehost = imap.gmail.com
ssl = yes
remoteport = 993
remoteuser = gmail.username
remotepass = gmail.password
usecompression = no
maxconnections = 1
readonly = False
# Set cert_fingerprint to whatever you need
#cert_fingerprint =
# Do not sync [Gmail]/All mail etc folders
folderfilter = lambda foldername: not re.search('^\[Gmail\]', foldername)
filtered by fnurl 