Moving mail to Google Apps

After my server was attacked and brought down by the Chinese I wasn’t certain whether or not the machine was compromised. I decided though to move my mail to Google Apps instead, preferring a good sleep over worries of another more ferocious attack. As my mail wasn’t on a live machine I could not use Google’s suggestion of using their API. Copying mail using both accounts in Thunderbird would have been a great manual effort but I also noticed it to be highly unreliable for large folders so I swiftly gave that up.