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 >> >> -- >> Computer and network administrators... Spread the word! >> LOPSA New Jersey Professional IT Community Conference >> New Brunswick, NJ, May 7-8, 2010 -- http://picconf.org >> _______________________________________________ >> Tech mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech >> This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators >> http://lopsa.org/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > > _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
