Hi Paul,
Thanks for your feedback. I guess we can apply different migration plan for
this case. Only problem is if old inboxes have more that one e-mail. After
the rename it on Imail platform. you cannot see all e-mail. you can see only
one e-mail which is the oldest e-mail and all the other e-mails appear in
that oldest one. I mean before rename, there are 3 e-mails for instance,
there will be only one e-mail (oldest one in that 3 e-mails), it has all the
other two e-mails inside though.
Cem
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Navarre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 10:24 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] NT Mail Migration.
> Hello Everyone,
>
> We are using NTmail platform for our customer right now and we
> are starting
> to provide the service on Imail Platform very soon. I should find
> out a way
> to migrate our exist customers from NTmail platform to Imail Platform. I
> need your help for this process. If anybody lived the same issue before or
> knows migration process, please tell me how I can migrate all our customer
> from NTmail to Imail without causing too much trouble to our customer.
> Any information will be appreciated.
>
> Thank you very much to taking your time.
I did this just recently. Fortunately, I three things working for me:
1. I don't have that many users.
2. I knew the passwords for most of them.
3. I was moving to a new hardware server at the same time
I manually set up all of the accounts on the new server the way I wanted
them. Since I was moving IIS at the same time, I copied all of that stuff as
well. Then I removed the IPs in question from the old server and installed
them on the new server. I linked the domains in Imail on the new server to
the appropriate IPs, and the new server was then "live". I then went back to
the old server and looked for mailboxes that contained any messages. If they
did, I simply renamed the NTMail mailbox files to main.mbx and copied them
to the appropriate place on the IMail server. As this took a little while,
some of the accounts received mail before I could get the old mailbox
copied. In this case, I moved the new mailbox to a dummy account I created
for this task, moved the old mailbox into the place vacted by the new
mailbox, and then opened the new messages now in the dummy account using an
email program. I then forwarded the message back to the account, with a
message as to why they were forwarded.
Not elegant, but it worked. The only problems I had were that sometimes a
user failed to get mail the first time they checked the new mailbox even
though there was email there, but it then would work thereafter. The other
problem was that for the few accounts where I didin't know the password, I
had to contact the users.
I understand that NTMail passwords are easily cracked, but I didn't bother.
For what it is worth, I was sick of NTMail's price structure going
dramatically up every year, while things like backup and moving
installations to a new server were getting more and more user-unfriendly due
to piracy paranoia. I am thrilled with Imail so far.
Paul Navarre
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