>Uh, why not download MBXs via POP3 directly into the Exchange mailbox? >That way you skip the Exmerge step and you don't have the .PST files.
Because exporting to PST files enables you to do the Exmerge batch import stage as many times as you need to get it right (as usually happens during a well-rehearsed migration, including deleting mailboxes from the IS and recreating them), without fear of losing messages during the across-the-wire transfer. Exmerge itself uses intermediate files because of the unpredictability of transferring from one remote server to another remote server, both over MAPI; I don't think it's worth the risk if MS doesn't. An alternative route, provided the amount of mail to be transferred is < 2 GB (< 20 GB in OL2K3), is downloading MBXs into different folders within the same PST, then dragging-and-dropping to Exchange mailboxes. Note that Exmerge will not import from PSTs > 2 GB, AFAIK. In all likelihood, all of the options requiring manual reconfiguration to hit each source mailbox will take very similar amounts of time. Now, if someone could get the IMAP4 connection working, that would definitely speed things up, but... --Sandy -- ------------------------------------ Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Broadleaf Systems, a division of Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------ -- To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
