OT: migrating exchange mailboxes to cyrus?

[Simon Matter]

> Tarjei Huse wrote:
>> tir, 19,.10.2004 kl. 07.24 -0400, skrev Base David:
>>
>>>Carl Brewer wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>My applogies for the off topic question, but I figure that here is
>>>>likely to be a huge pool of experience with what I'm trying to do.
>>>>
>>>>I'm migrating a small business away from exchange to a cyrus imapd
>>>>mail server (one for the good guys!).  There's only one mail
>>>>account, but it's got thousands of archived emails sitting on
>>>>the exchange server - so many that I tried to import them into
>>>>Mozilla Thunderbird with the import tool, and after letting it run
>>>>for 12 hours, it had hardly moved the progress bar.  I think the PC
>>>>hasn't enough grunt to do it.  It's an old win98 box with abuot 64 MB
>>>>or so of RAM.
>>>>
>>>>Can anyone here suggest another way to extract this email from the
>>>>exchange server onto my new NetBSD cyrus server, so my user can
>>>>get at his old email?
>>
>>
>> My experience is that normal Outlook is the best tool for something like
>> this if the mail is on a clientsystem.
>
> *nod*
>
> I'm going to install outlook on a box here to do the extraction,
> as I have the server here at home now, but not the client.

If you are doing it via IMAP, I can always suggest using Netscape 4.8 for
it. You can copy complete Folder trees with one click which is what most
modern clients only allow for a sinlge folder.

Simon


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