Hello,
sorry for the tangentially related topic, but this is the best place
that comes to mind for a question like this. Feel free to redirect me
somewhere else if you know one more appropriate.
I have an HCL Notes (formerly Lotus Notes then IBM Notes) account used
primarily for email. I would like to backup the emails in there into a
standard email setup using IMAP on Maildir mailboxes.
Does anyone know a good solution for doing this?
I found two ways to do this (that likely work only on Windows, but I do
not have a choice anyway for this specific account):
- I can drag-and-drop individual email messages from the HCL Notes
client into a filesystem folder to get an export in .eml files. These
can be then imported quite easily into a Maildir folder. I tried this on
a few messages and it seem to work. However, I read that this solution
may have reliability problems when applied to a large amount of
messages. It does not work for calendar invites and maybe other things
that appear as email messages in HCL Notes.
- I can write a script using Win32 COM to export all messages to an XML
format called DXL. I could then write another script that converts the
DXL into a standard MIME format email message. This seems more reliable
or at least the scripting makes it more easily automated to be restarted
if something goes wrong. However, converting DXL into standard MIME
messages seems convoluted at best (HCL Notes uses his own XML markup
language for formatting).
Has anyone attempted anything like this and has recommendations?
The easiest would be if the HCL Notes administrators would enable the
IMAP service, but I have not been able to convince them that this would
be a good thing.
Thank you.
Cheers,
Dan
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