Thanks Mark, a good tip!
Daniel Donnelly
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 12:00 PM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Downloan email from slmailI
> At 09:00 AM 3/14/2001 -0600, you wrote:
> >This is from slmail to imail. I understand how to do it but I do not
want
> >to have to do each one individually. I thought there was a way to it a
> >little faster than one at a time. In slmail the users .mbx files are in a
> >directory called system. Just all together. I was told yesterday to
copy
> >each one rename it to main and place in the imail/users/ username folder.
>
> Hi Patti. Another SLMail switch. Did one about a year ago myself. Have
> had no issues with IMail at all.
>
> Unfortunately, the switch is a problem. I did the same thing. Imported
> the users fine in about 30 seconds with the add user utility, but the
> mailboxes were an issue. Here is how I did the switch.
>
> Stopped SLMail. Started IMail running as the main email server. Copied
> each mailbox from SLMail to the new IMail users directory for that
> person. Then did a Find FIles or Folders for *.mbx. Then I just renamed
> the files to main.mbx. If a new message had come in and automatically
> created the main.mbx already in that users directory, then I just cut, and
> pasted the messages from the old mailbox into the new one. I did this at
> 2am. This way less aggravation for your customers. You don't get any
> calls asking about settings for the old mail server and then the new one
etc.
>
> The only issue I had was some users passwords needed to be retyped. The
> import work but about 100 of my 2500 users at that time had login issue
> with the mail server. I retyped the password in IMail and all was fine.
>
> Cheers
> Mark
>
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