On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 09:11:52 -0600 Stan Hoeppner <s...@hardwarefreak.com> articulated:
> Brian Hayden put forth on 2/27/2010 8:28 AM: > > On Feb 27 2010, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > >> To add insult to injury, mailbox migration from Exch 5.5 IMAP to > >> Dovecot IMAP was done using TB as the conduit, simply copying > >> folders from one "account" to another. Took forever, but it was > >> the only reliable way I could think of at the time to do it. It > >> actually went very smoothly. > > > > How large is the user base? Are the clients managed? And are you > > sure you haven't had any problems... only a very small number of > > users generally complain to relevant parties about a given issue, > > they grouse about it to their friends and colleagues. > > Very small. Manual client management. No problems after the > migration. If I complain, I'm sure I'll hear myself. ;) The > migration I mentioned was my vanity server. If I were supporting an > IMAP infrastructure at a $dayjob environment I would have never gone > this route. And I probably wouldn't have been upgrading directly > from Exchange 5.5 (which was EOL'd in like 1999 or 2000) to Dovecot > 1.0.15. ;) I can't imagine an org that would have held onto Exch > 5.5 into 2009, given that service packs and hotfixes ceased around a > decade ago. January 31, 2006 <http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/2007/support/lifecycle/changes.mspx> The newest version is MS Exchange 2010 > > It's definitely possible to make it work with tight control. In a > > large, unmanaged environment, it really isn't. Unless you want to > > posit that the 80k users I dealt with for ten years on this were > > exceptionally stupid. ;) > > That would depend on who those 80K users were. If they were federal > employees, worse yet, HUD or USPS employees, I'd guess the stupidity > meter would run pretty high. ;) -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com |::::======= |::::======= |=========== |=========== | For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off. Johnny Carson