rgladwell/imap-upload

Mailbox name should probably be prefixed with: INBOX

marckagan opened this issue · 4 comments

marckagan commented

I have tried a variety of different options to upload my Google Takeout mbox to my IMAP account. No matter what I do I get:

to [Opened,Category Updates] NG (b'Client tried to access nonexistent namespace. (Mailbox name should probably be prefixed with: INBOX

Here is the command line I am using. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated...
python3 imap_upload.py --ssl --user=test@test.com --password='test' --host=imap.dreamhost.com --port=993 --error='All mail Including Spam and Trash_errors.mbox' --box='INBOX' --google-takeout --google-takeout-box-as-base-folder 'All mail Including Spam and Trash-002.mbox'

adriangibanelbtactic commented

I have tried a variety of different options to upload my Google Takeout mbox to my IMAP account. No matter what I do I get:

to [Opened,Category Updates] NG (b'Client tried to access nonexistent namespace. (Mailbox name should probably be prefixed with: INBOX

Here is the command line I am using. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated... python3 imap_upload.py --ssl --user=test@test.com --password='test' --host=imap.dreamhost.com --port=993 --error='All mail Including Spam and Trash_errors.mbox' --box='INBOX' --google-takeout --google-takeout-box-as-base-folder 'All mail Including Spam and Trash-002.mbox'

So far the command seems ok to me.

Maybe you should try to determine what is the folder separator for your imap server and then use the --folder-separator= parametre.

Otherwise use an imap client to explore your imap server and check if INBOX is actually your root folder in your imap folder. It is imap-upload (and not the imap server) which it's saying that the mailbox name should probably be prefixed with INBOX. It might be something else than INBOX after all.

miroslavpetrov commented

Same issue here. @marckagan Did you find a solution? I also try to migrate my emails from google workspace.

rgladwell commented

@miroslavpetrov did you try the advice suggested by @adriangibanelbtactic above?