Nick Whalen <[email protected]> writes: > I'm wondering if anyone on the list has dealt with GMail (Google Hosted > Services) to Exchange migrations before.
I've done a cyrus imap -> exchange migration, though not a gmail -> exchange migration. > I've had IMAPsync recommended to me so far, and it looks like a > (potentially) decent solution, but I'd like the opinion of my fellow > admins before taking that plunge. Methods that would produce a PST file > of the GMail mailboxes would also be heartily welcomed, as it would > appear Ops would like to keep the old mail off of the Exchange storage > group and on the local user's machine. One of the things I really liked about imapsync, was that it let me do the bulk of the work asynchronously, from a dedicated VM. I brought up a machine, that just say there syncing mail. When it was time to move an individual user over, they got a final sync, and some forwarding rules, then client reconfiguration and all their mail was there. When I've tried to do things by bulk moving in an MUA, it has always gone poorly. It needs lots of baby sitting, and something always blows up and requires a lot of work to figure out what got lost. I suspect that trying to convert gmail->pst to keep mail out of exchange is asking for trouble. I'd recommend pushing everything into exchange, setting warning quotas and letting outlook archive. I think trying to bypass this process is likely to result in hard to debug outlook problems. I suspect I'm overly cautious here, but I've been burnt by it. Good luck with it. seph _______________________________________________ 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/
