Yeah, pounding tags through a folder-shaped hole is really really
ugly. I went through a couple weeks of trying to read my gmail
locally, before just giving up and going back to the web app.

Graham

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Singer Wang <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'll say this, we did a Cyrus-IMAP to GMail migration and there was issues
> beyond the technical. GMail works on a different paradigm then
> Outlook/Exchange or IMAP. We had to do user training to get people to see
> how mail works in the GMail paradigm. That you will also need to take into
> time for.
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Tom Limoncelli <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> I agree that IMAP is generally the way to go.  (Note: I work for
>> Google but a different part of google, so my advice is only an
>> estimate).
>>
>> One point of concern:  Can you Exchange server handle the very large
>> mail boxes that people may have accumulated on the Google Apps
>> accounts?   If you run out of space on Exchange it could make for some
>> unhappy users (and sysadmins).  You might want to migrate only
>> designated folders, or not migrate any data, just have new email go to
>> their Exchange inbox and let them retain their Google Apps account for
>> a year.
>>
>> PLEASE convert a few people at a time, don't try to do a "flash cut"
>> or "weekend migration".  At the last LISA someone published a paper
>> about how bad a transition like that can go, especially since there is
>> no good way to test such a migration before hand.  (and similar
>> statements have been published over and over.  When will we ever
>> learn?)
>>
>> Tom
>>
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