On Sun, 2001-12-02 at 13:52, Michael Rothwell wrote: > > I'm tired of having to put Exchange in the Iron Lung and recover mail, > especially now that my boss (an accountant) has more or less made my job > dependent on the performance of Exchange (it went down one day before I > got in the office, but after the Uber-Boss was in and trying to send > email -- sh*t rolls downhill, and I got a 'verbal warning', sigh). I > would like to move all of our exchange mailboxes to an imap server. > Outlook does not allow IMAP and Exchange/MAPI to be used at the same > time, the only idea I have at the moment is to create personal folders > for everyone, copy all of their email into it, switch Outlook to use > IMAP, and upload all of the mail to the imap server. I don't like this > solution, because it will involve sitting at each person's desktop. > > And imap-to-imap solution seems like it would be nicer for the mail move > -- just copy all messages from one imap server (exchange) to another > (running on RedHat). > > Has anyone else out there faced this type of problem, and have any > experiences to share? > > Sorry for the OT post. :)
if you're planning on storing the mailboxes on linux in mbox format then I would suggest fetchmail just get everyone's passwords or change them, or whatever, and suck all the mail over, quickly. then take down the exchange box. presto. -sv
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