Email import

[armhub]

As a user I want to import my existing mailbox from a different provider into my Tutanota mailbox, so that I do not lose my old emails and do not have to maintain a second email account.

Implementation hints

For detailed description and discussion see the wiki page for email import (/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=87492762 )

[MatMatt]

Is there a schedule for the email import (i.e. gmail -> tuta)? (This is what stops me to do the final migration to tuta.)

[charlag]

No ETA, see https://tutanota.com/roadmap

[MatMatt]

ETA?

[charlag]

No estimated time until it lands. You can check the approximate order of feature implementation on the roadmap. We know that it's something a lot of people need but we try to balance needs of different users. Hope you understand.

[mummybot]

To be able to migrate email to Tutanota will open your product up to a horde of new customers. Eagerly awaiting this feature to become available!

[MatMatt]

Here is the possibility to vote for the email import feature:
https://tutanota.uservoice.com/forums/237921-general/suggestions/34768582-enable-gmail-users-to-migrate-their-information-to

[davidhfo]

This one has more votes:
https://tutanota.uservoice.com/forums/237921-general/suggestions/6860065-import-external-e-mail-account

[MatMatt]

I just realised there are 3 (!!!) voting 'slots':
currently 887 Votes here: https://tutanota.uservoice.com/forums/237921-general/suggestions/6860065-import-external-e-mail-account
647 here https://tutanota.uservoice.com/forums/237921-general/suggestions/9798387-allow-archiving-and-import-export-of-mail
124 here: https://tutanota.uservoice.com/forums/237921-general/suggestions/6860065-import-external-e-mail-account

= currently summing up to 1648 in total.

[g-k-m]

I wanna switch to tutanota so badly cuz my friends say gmail is bad and google ceo wakes up by reading our emails, but the lack of email import feature is preventing me from doing so :(
Now they laugh at me and call me a loser

[jawiz]

If I want to contribute towards getting this feature developed, what would be the outline processing required here? Parse e-mail files and index them securely?

[charlag]

@jawiz there's a problem with IDs which include timestamp & we have some ideas on how to solve this but this is not a client-side issue. Parsing emails is not a big deal I think.

[jawiz]

@charlag Got it. Is it so that the server-side code is not open-source?

[charlag]

@jawiz yes, we evaluate the idea of publishing a smaller server, suitable for self-hosting but no promises right now.