I have a mailbox <example>@<user>.plus.com, with dozens of sub-folders and many messages stored in it. I would like to keep the stored messages (for the moment, anyway) but set up a redirect for <example> to her gmail address for new messages, so that new messages don't keep filling up the limited PlusNet mailbox space. I don't want to lose old messages or have more than a few minutes while new messages can't be received at all. I can't see how to do this!
- The obvious way would be to rename the mailbox <example>, and immediately afterwards create a new redirect from <example>@<user>.plus.com to <example>@gmail.com. Can I do this? Where do I find the rename mailbox command?
- A second approach might be to back up or archive the entire contents of mailbox <example> in a form which preserves the folder structure, downloaded or uploaded to appropriate storage, then delete the mailbox and set up the redirect of the same name. This might not be so good, because messages could arrive between the backup and the delete, and they would be lost. Can I do such a backup? How?
- The ideal approach would be for creating a new redirect to be allowed, but to hide or rename the mailbox of the same name, so that messages could still be retrieved from mailbox <user>+<example> or <user>+<example-old>, but new messages would be diverted by the redirect. Can I do this? (I don't want to experiment on real messages!)
For what it may be worth, the motivation for this move is the poor performance of PlusNet IMAP mail connection, which makes the redirect desirable but also makes backing up and deleting messages from the mailbox unreliable. That belongs, though, in a different thread.
