OT: migrating exchange mailboxes to cyrus?

[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?
>
> 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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