OT: migrating exchange mailboxes to cyrus?

[Tarjei Huse]

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.

However, as your mail is allready on an imapenabled box, I suggest you
take a look at one of the many imap2imap migrationscripts out there. 

Tarjei

> >
> > thanks!
> >
> > Carl
> >
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> Install fetchmail on the cyrus server.  See
> http://catb.org/~esr/fetchmail/
> 
> Good luck,
> Dave
> 
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