Migration of CalMail system to bMail
Plan and schedule of our move to bMail
Below are dates and specifics about how the migration will affect you, your email access, and our department.
- Scheduled move date
- Friday, March 15 at 5:00 pm
It will take most of the weekend to move all the department’s mail from CalMail to bMail, but please understand that *you will always have access to email*. You will be able to send and receive messages using http://bmail.berkeley.edu throughout the weekend while the migration is underway. The migration will be completed by Monday, March 18.
- Existing CalMail accounts @berkeley.edu will be moved to bMail (hosted by Google).
- People who do not have a CalMail account @berkeley.edu will get bMail one before the move.
- Existing CalMail (subdomain) accounts @math.berkeley.edu will be merged with ones @berkeley.edu. Both @berkeley.edu and @math.berkeley.edu addresses will stay valid but will point to the same (Gmail) mail box.
- The storage quota will increase from 10 to 25 GB.
- The web interface Gmail will look quite different from CalMail SquirrelMail and RoundCube. However, Gmail is designed for best user experience and is recommended by campus IT team as a primary email tool.
- The IMAP desktop and mobile access (via Thunderbird, Apple Mail, MS Outlook, alpine, mutt, etc.) to bMail will require a separate password (a.k.a. bConnected key) that has to be setup via https://idc.berkeley.edu/mmk/.
- Some CalMail settings will not be migrated. Most notable setting that will get dropped is CalMail forwarding. You will need to reconfigure the forwarding after the move via https://calmail.berkeley.edu/manage/account.
- Existing CalMail (IMAP) folders will be translated to so-called Gmail labels. The main difference between label and folder is that a message can be tagged by several labels and, thus, can appear in multiple "folders" (without being duplicated) in contrast to CalMail in which a message may belong to only one folder.
