OT: migrating exchange mailboxes to cyrus?

[Carl Brewer]

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.

Thanks everyone for your suggestions.

Carl

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