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Plain City Auction
Plain City Auction is located in Plain City, Ohio and specializes in antique furniture, glassware, pottery, and toys.
When proVanceTek was created, after the founder, Robert Nelson Vance, left his previous business partnership, Plain City Auction elected to follow Robert. During the move there were a number of changes to the Plain City Auction website. These included migration of the website from a custom CMS written by the previous hosting company to the Drupal Content Management System, migration of thousands of email addresses to a new announcement system, etc. Plain City Auction, however, wanted to keep the original look of the website, however, so we simply made the new site look as close to the original as possible.
"The website is coming along nicely. Really like the new website with the expanded number of photographs." - D. Holmberg; Columbus, Ohio
Davidson Theatre
The Davidson Theatre website is Hilliard Davidson High School's Theatre Department's web presence. We're hosting their site and providing regular site maintenance support for their content-rich website. Their Drupal-based website includes everything from announcements via email subscription to online ticket sales and donations.
"proVanceTek helped us rebuild our website so it is much easier for us to input items. The company is responsive in meeting our needs and quick to provide any help we need. If you want personal attention that is responsive to your needs, this is a company to consider." - D. Evans; Hilliard, Ohio
ECU Up 'til Dawn
Up 'til Dawn is the coolest program to hit college campuses across the nation! This student-led, student-run fund-raiser is hosted by over 150 colleges and universities nationwide. We donated design time and hosting space for the WordPress-based website of the East Carolina University chapter of this charitable and hip organization.
"proVanceTek has been soo generous to our program by volunteering all of the services needed to maintain our organizations website that provides us priceless tools for the work that we do. We owe a large portion of our success to this company's contributions." - K. Rae; Greenville, North Carolina
So you want to migrate email from one mail server to Gmail?
So you're like us and have decided that there just isn't anything better than Gmail spam filtering and are wondering "why reinvent the wheel?" I mean, there's lots of reasons to switch to Gmail, but the spam filtering is just amazing. That means you're probably to the point of trying to figure out how to move your hundreds of email messages to the Gmail account you've setup.
Here's what we're doing. We've decided to use Google Mail through Google Apps. It allows us to point our domains MX records towards Google and collect mail for our domains at email addresses we've setup through Google. The cool part is, that the email addresses are actually at our-domain-name.com and we're able to check email at mail.our-domain-name.com using the well-known Gmail web interface.
But back to the point... Migrating mail from an email server to Gmail.
Currently, Google Apps offers a range of options to ease your migration from Microsoft Outlook and Exchange. However, this solution does not help the server admin who's not using Microsoft's products. We also located instructions for IMAP mail migration, however, it's only available for Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, Cyrus IMAP Server, Courier-IMAP, and Dovecot applications. That brings us to our solution, a workaround if you will:
- Make sure the original email account is accessible via IMAP.
- Log into the newly created Gmail account and turn on IMAP access.
- Install an email client that supports IMAP. We used Apple Mail. A good windows alternative would be Thunderbird.
- Configure the mail client to access both email accounts via IMAP.
- Drag and drop email from the old email account to the new Gmail account.
- Wait for your mail to finish transferring.
That's it! A few easy steps and you're done.
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