um fetchmail is your friend
if you know the username/password of your
lotus clients (or can take the lotus server and globaly
reset the passwords to something you know... )
when run as root fetchmail has MANY neat options...
you can set it up so that each new user account pops(or imaps) into the
lotus notes server,
grabs all the mail in the mail boxes, and restreams all messages to the
new qmail smtp server... for delivery of the mailbox on the new mailserver
vola in your new mailservers inbox will be all the emails
works great... especially if you're migrating a
large amount of clients
we did this for a client last summer
that had to move 20k clients from
an old ISP server to a new inhouse server...
took 6 hours (ok we had a PHAT pipe)
we did it without requireing any administrative access
to the original server.
now there are a few stumbling blocks ..
it helps if you know all the imap folders that people have sorted
their mail into etc etc. or better yet tell the users to move any
mail they want to save to somedir by migration date...
it also helps if you dont accidently destroy source mail
in the process... (make sure you dont have remove mail
from server after pop set to YES) or you'll never be able to
restart the process if something goes horribly wrong.
it also is a wise idea to run a few tests on
some throw away accounts (ok run LOTS of tests)
when your ready to do it...
block the lotus server from receiving any smtp or pop
traffic except from your target box)
x your fingers and throw the switch...
it also helps if you throw that switch when no project managers,
VPs, presidents, CEOs, CTOs, and administrative personel and other
people who tend to worry, panic, or point out things like
its too simple it cant possibly work are around,
I recommend some time around 2am
kenneth gf brown
ceo shadowplay.net
-Original Message-
From: Alex Borges [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: February 19, 2005 14:02
To: vchkpw@inter7.com
Subject: Re: [vchkpw] OT: Migration of Lotus Notes to Vpopmail
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Juan Enciso Condeña wrote:
| Hi list.
|
| I need migrate accounts and mailbox from Lotus Notes 5.0.1 to
| Qmail+Vpopmail. The accounts creation isn't problem, but my main
| problem is migrate the mailbox to maildir. The mailbox for
one user,
| in Lotus, is into a file .nsf (database Lotus). I need convert
| 1062 mailbox to Maildir. Somebody know how convert this?
|
If at all possible:
a) Create all the accounts in the new server
b) Configure the imap client for both lotus notes and thenewserver
c) Have THE USERS copy and paste all the email they want to
the new server
d) Tell them they will loose all their old mail by X date if
they dont do this.
Thats the cheapest way.
| If isn't possible convert directly the file nsf, I'm think
use imap
| migration tool http://migrationtool.sourceforge.net/ but I
never use
| this tool
|
| Somebody has some experience using tools like to fetchmail,
| migrationtool, or others?
|
| Any suggestion is been thankful
|
| Bye friends
|
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