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G-mail Migration Application

Purpose:
  -Migrate all e-mails, settings, contacts, and folders from current Imail system to Google Apps
  -Ensure each account is migrated once and only once.
  -Clean-up old account and set proper forwarding rules on old Imail system.
  -Constantly running via CRON.
    
Target:
  -Several thousand student accounts (Top Priority)
  -~20,000 alumni accounts (Medium Priority)
  -Misc accounts
  
Workflow:
  -Participants sign-up via an aspx page and select the settings they wish moved over
  -Information is stored in MS SQL db.
  -This application picks up the new entries, informs the user their migration is starting,
  runs the various requested migrations, informs the user that migration has finished, and 
  cleans up the old account.
  -User is removed from participant list and Imail account is no longer accessible.

Description
  During the summer of 2009 the UCLA School of Law acquired a Google Apps account and decided
to use Google to host email services for the law school. In order to implement this without
interfering with current students, staff and faculty email usage a migration tool was 
requested. This tool would migrate all necessary and data from the old Imail system into
G-mail using the Google Apps API.
   
All Migrations completed Fall 2009.

Disclaimer: Google APIs may have changed since the creation of this application.