Quoting Ean Kingston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On May 26, 2005 02:58 am, Chris Andrews wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I've got a non-profit using squirelmail on my server. It's a good > > organization and I don't charge them anything. > > > > However, in the last few years, this non-profit has grown > > tremendously. And so has the size of their mailboxes. They've got some > > huge ones now. It's putting quite a strain on my server, and they are > > complaining about slowness. > > > > I've tried the suggestions in the 'performance' faq, they didn't help. I > > think it's this darn mbox mail format my server uses that is really the > > problem. > > Switching to a different imap server would help with that. Courier-imap and > Cyrus-imap are both better at handing large mailboxes. It does take some work > > to tune them, though. I prefer Courier-imap because it is a bit easier to > setup (IMO) and the smtp server I use can deliver directly to the > courier-imap mail-store (Maildir). > > > So.... I need to get this organizations mail off my server. They want to > > use Outlook. So that's what we're gonna do. > > > > Downloading all their emails into Outlook is a pretty simple thing. Just > > enter the appropriate info into Outlook and connect up. > > > > However... all the mail, the In folder, Sent folder and any other folders > > they have created, all downloads into the Outlook Inbox. > > > > Is there a way that I can migrate their email into Outlook and direct mail > > to the correct Outlook folder/box? > > I had to do this at a previous organization I worked for. What we did was to > > setup an IMAP client in Outlook and copy the folders one at a time to the > local instance in Outlook. > > If you want, you can then remove the IMAP account configuration and setup a > POP3 account in Outlook to download new mail. > > Honestly, switching IMAP server software might be better. > > > Thank you for any assistance you can provide :) > > You are welcome. > > -- > Ean Kingston > > E-Mail: ean AT hedron DOT org > URL: http://www.hedron.org/ > I am currently looking for work. If you need competent system/network > administration please feel free to contact me directly. > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by Yahoo. > Introducing Yahoo! Search Developer Network - Create apps using Yahoo! > Search APIs Find out how you can build Yahoo! directly into your own > Applications - visit http://developer.yahoo.net/?fr=offad-ysdn-ostg-q22005 > -- > squirrelmail-users mailing list > Posting Guidelines: > http://squirrelmail.org/wiki/wiki.php?MailingListPostingGuidelines > List Address: squirrelmail-users@lists.sourceforge.net > List Archives: > http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user > List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 > List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users >
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