RE: [ActiveDir] Migration from Exchange Server to an SMTP Server?

[Kevin Brunson]

All of this is done with the assumption that by plain ol’ smtp server, you mean you are going to be using POP3 on the client side. Option 1 Enable POP3, set up POP accounts in Outlook, right before you POP for the first time on a client get rid of the Exchange connection.  POP the server, downloading all of the email to the client.  Be prepared to wait a while.   Option 2 Redirect email to the new smtp/pop3 server.  Once you have confirmed that email is flowing to the new server, Exmerge everyone’s email out to pst.  Copy that pst over to wherever you want it, configure outlook to talk to the pst.  set up their outlook for the new server, and pop the new server, dumping new mail in amongst their old mail.  You could also take a variant of this and just bring their old pst in as an archive and let new mail flow to a new pst.   Either way, running an exmerge before you do anything else is probably a very good idea, just to make sure you keep with the mandate of not losing email. Kevin   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Corbett, Tony Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 4:11 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] Migration from Exchange Server to an SMTP Server?   Hi all, Has anyone migrated OFF MS-Exchange to an SMTP email server? Any tips on how to move the mail so the users don’t lose all their historical email?   I’m trying to write up a detailed project plan to move the users’ email from our Exchange server to a regular ol’ SMTP server.   The only requirement is: “Don’t lose my emails”.   I appreciate any help you have to offer.   TIA   Tony Corbett [EMAIL PROTECTED] 770-870-2820 (desk)   DISCLAIMER: The information in this message is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this message by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, or distribution of the message, or any action or omission taken by you in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Please immediately contact the sender if you have received this message in error. Thank you.