[iMS] Shedding Lotus

[JBailey]

Greetings,

I've been working with iMS getting bulk mailing down (as I'm sure everyone that subscribes to this list is well aware :-) and am in the process of converting our company email to web based using iMS. The trick here will be porting over everyone's archived mail from our current mail server/client, Lotus Notes.

I know I can connect via ODBC to the Lotus DB, so pulling out the messages should be possible. I'm just wondering if I'll need to create a mail file for each of these archived messages (which could easily number in the thousands) or, because we plan on using SQL 7 as the DB behind iMS, storing all archived messages in SQL and using the file method of iMS for new messages.... OR, (and this is what I'm leaning towards) having iMS place all emails into the SQL DB and not using mail files.

Any input would be, as always, greatly appreciated!

Jason Bailey
Senior Client / Server Developer
Alcott + Routon
615.346.5236