#ListUpload

##Transfer a shared e-mail to google groups

If your organization used to use a single e-mail account that was accessed by multiple people, but are moving that to a Google Groups account, Google provides a Groups Migration api expressly for this purpose.

Google provides a Groups Migration API for multiple programming languages.

With python they provide rather useful (if a bit hard to find) sample code

With Java there's bit more difficulty. Google provides a Javadoc for their GroupsMigration API, but it's rather sparse. Google also provides sample code, (off of which this project is loosely based) but the sample code provided is out of date. (E.g. One problem is it's written using an API key login. To actually migrate e-mails into the group you need an Oauth2 client access token). There's a good afternoon's worth of trial-and-error to get it to a working state.

The class GroupsMigrationBackend.java is functionally an updated, already usable demo of Groups Migration API, in case you aim to develop using Groups Migration API.

To use this utility, you will need:

• JDK
• Maven
• A google apps account with a domain
• The e-mail address of the group you wish to move e-mails to.
• The IMAP details of an e-mail account you wish to transfer e-mails from.
• A google console project set up in the google api console and it's Oauth secrets file.
• To give permission in your Google Apps Administrator console for that project to access the Groups Migration API for your Google Apps

1. Ensure you have a JDK and Maven installed, and that Maven is on your path, and you have the environment variable JAVA_HOME set to your JDK path.
2. Download this repository onto your computer
3. replace appropriate sample constants in source with the authentication details relevant to your organization
4. mvn compile
5. mvn -q exec: java