<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On 4 March 2015 at 16:36, Patrick Boutilier <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:boutilpj@ednet.ns.ca" target="_blank">boutilpj@ednet.ns.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class=""><br>
I would take the opportunity to migrate my email away to someone who is<br>
unlikely to do so in future.<br>
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That would be hard to do if it was a work provided account. :-)<br></blockquote><div> </div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Any IT manager that did that would find his/her life made as difficult as I could manage for as long as I and (s)he remained at the company; then again I doubt that would be very long - the cost of forcing an entire company to spend a couple of hours per person faffing around copying mail from one system to another is simply unjustifiable.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Migrating email systems is a complex thing to do, but not an impossible one. And if you can't figure out how to do it, you shouldn't be managing a system change, you should either pass it to someone who can or just keep using the system you have. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Incidentally, a question for the OP: why change from Cyrus to Zimbra? If you want collaborative features, wouldn't Kolab do the job (and therefore allow you to keep your Cyrus backend)?</div></div></div>