My infinite quest for operational efficiency continues to be elusive. Despite my love for Zimbra, our dev team really wanted to switch to Gmail and Google Apps for Enterprise. I do the Google Apps, but I am finding that if you have lots of mail already you are going to suffer the wrath of IMAP vs. Google. So far it's been a bit painful-at least for those of us who have been using IMAP to store our mail. Right no My infinite quest for operational efficiency continues to be elusive. Despite my love for Zimbra, our dev team really wanted to switch to Gmail and Google Apps for Enterprise. I do the Google Apps, but I am finding that if you have lots of mail already you are going to suffer the wrath of IMAP vs. Google.So far it’s been a bit painful-at least for those of us who have been using IMAP to store our mail. Right now, Google doesn’t offer an import mechanism so you have to POP your mail into the inbox…which should be fine except Gmail can’t seem to (not sure that it should) be able to find mail stored outside the inbox (which is the majority of my mail). There are a few options for this situation: -Try the Gmail loader script–this requires that you download all your mail and reforward it via Thunderbird or another Mbox like app -Move mail into your inbox then POP it into Gmail For now I have opted for the latter and I have to say it’s an enormous pain in the ass. I am sure there is some other way to do this via 3rd party but in the meantime I truly hate this missing link. On the plus side, I feel like I could switch off Mac mail entirely, but still need offline capability. Check out David Berlind’s write-up. Open Source