On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 11:13 AM, Alexei Yu. Batyr' <le...@pcmag.ru> wrote:
> Lisa Muir wrote on 08.08.2014 12:53:
> > Hi Guys,
> >
> > GOing to be decommisioing a bunch of email accounts for an
> > organisation today as we migrate them from an old courier server to a
> > new one. All the accounts were accessed as IMAP accounts.
> >
> > Told them I would put the old maildirs onto the office nas so that
> > they'd have them, and they asked the obvious question, what would they
> > open them with.
> >
> > This office actually has a couple of Linux desktops, a bunch of
> > windows desktops a few ios / android devices, which should make the
> > solution easier if there is a good solution for just one of those
> > platforms.
> >
> > Anybody dealt with this before and got any solutions they find works
> good?
> >
> >
> Why not just copy these messages to some IMAP subfolder of new account's
> Maildir?
>
>
That approach makes sense where the same user exists on the new system, but
is a hit and miss approach for scenarios where a user has left. As a
sysadmin, I just want a one hig approach to get the job done rather than
get engaged in a process where people mull over the appropriate nature of
someone in particular having access to someone else's old email.
It also makes sense for me to think about this as someone who has been
encouraging all users to use IMAP for the past 14 years, we've got some
imap accounts that are huge, say 20+gb.... enough of them causes a problem,
and perhaps an IMAP server isn't the best or most appropriate place to hold
14 year old email, there must come a time where it goes into archives
somewhere and I don't think a MUA is the appropriate place for that, but
some searchable repository is.
This is all a WIP.... I'll put something together for this particular
customer, road test it, and tweak based on their feedback.
Lisa.
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