By Ryan
Propper, Google Apps TeamWith hundreds (if not thousands)
of popular email clients and mail servers out there, importing email into another service can
be challenge, especially when you consider the troves of old email most people save. To ease
this pain, we created the
Google
Apps Email Migration API.
This new API is available in
Google Apps Premier, Partner, and Education
Editions, and you can use it to migrate your existing email from anywhere into Google Apps.
Let's say, for example, you want to import email from your Obscurix Email Server v2.0001715.
Just write some parsing code and use our simple API to upload that email into the desired
mailbox. For convenience, you can authenticate to the API not only as the end user of the
destination mailbox, but also as a Google Apps administrator, and target any mailbox in the
domain. This API uses the
Google data API
protocol, which means there are a
host of client libraries
to make importing even easier.
LimitNone (one of our
Enterprise Professional partners)
has already built a
migration
utility that works with calendars, email and contacts.
For
more info, check out the
Google
Enterprise Blog, or just dive right into the
developer's
guide. And please,
let us know what you
think!
