Migrate email to gmail with imapsync – Host2 failure: Error login

So you want to migrate your emails from your hosting to your Gmail and you can’t get it to work with imapsync? You triple checked your login credentials and are correct but transfer still doesnt work. So what is causing error bellow?

Host2 failure: Error login on [66.102.1.108] with user [mymail@mydomain.com] auth [LOGIN]: 2 NO [ALERT] Please log in via your web browser

You have to login to your Google Apps settings (Security -> Advanced security settings) and change value for Less secure apps to: Enforce access to less secure apps for all users. Than it should work.

Mass email migration with imapsync

You may want to migrate larger number of email accounts to another server. If there are even different types of mail servers, than imapsync is one of the best solutions for migration. With script below, you’ll be able to migrate multi accounts without repeating and running imapsync again and again.

Here is the script. Just create file, e.g. mail-migration.sh, and paste code below in it.

#!/bin/bash

# Source and destination mail server setting
SERVER1=post.literal.si
SERVER2=cp2.hosterdam.com

# Select appropriate auth mechanism.
#AUTHMECH1="--authmech1 LOGIN"
#AUTHMECH2="--authmech2 LOGIN"

# Uncomment if you want to start test/dryrun only. No emails will be transfered!
#TESTONLY="--dry"

# Path to imapsync
imapsync=/usr/bin/imapsync

# Users file
if [ -z "$1" ]
then
echo "No users text file given." 
exit
fi

if [ ! -f "$1" ]
then
echo "Given users text file \"$1\" does not exist" 
exit
fi

# start loop
{ while IFS=';' read  u1 p1 u2 p2; do
	$imapsync ${TESTONLY} ${AUTHMECH1} --host1 ${SERVER1} --user1 "$u1" --password1 "$p1" ${AUTHMECH2} --host2 ${SERVER2} --user2 "$u2" --password2 "$p2"
done ; } < $1

Don’t forget to chmod your script so that will be executable.

chmod +x mail-migration.sh

Now you’ll have to create a simple text file that will contain login informations for each email account that you want to transfer. Create text file, for example, mail-users.txt and add login informations like shown bellow. Login informations must be separated with ;. username1 is username on old server, username2 is username on new server.

username1@domain.com;password1;username2;password2
anotheruser1@domain.com;password1;anotheruser2@domain.com;password2
.
.
.

Finaly, lets transfer emails. Simply run your script like shown below. Use text file with login informations that you created. Imapsync will try to transfer all accounts that are in mail-users.txt.

root@myserver [~]# ./migrate-mail.sh mail-users.txt

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