Have you tried this... Don't know if it will work or not.
Copy the mbx file from SLMail to the users folder on the
Imail server and rename it to main.mbx. Then open
Imail Admin and see if it recognizes it?
I am not familiar enough with SLMail's format to know
that this would work.
Dusty
----- Original Message -----
From: Steve Coleman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, September 04, 1999 1:01 PM
Subject: [IMail Forum] Migrating to IMail
> I plan on migrating from SL Mail to IMail. I can export/import the users
> and passwords, no problem there. I'm concerned about the messages waiting
> in the POP3 boxes to be picked up by the users. If I switch to a new mail
> server, the users will not have access to any messages that were on the
> system prior to the switch. SL Mail uses a .mbx file that is plain text
for
> each POP account. Will IMail be able to read or import these POP3 .MBX
> files? If not, has anyone written a converter? Do you have any migration
> pointers or suggestions? I want to make this as painless as possible for
> our users.
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