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pscottlee
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Wed Dec 28, 2005 1:58 am Post subject:
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Is there a way to move mail info from SENDMAIL (running on Linux) to Exchange
2003. All mail will be going through the Exchange server now. The MX
records will now point to the Exchange server. What can we do with the
emails on the SENDMAIL server?
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Transam388
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Wed Dec 28, 2005 1:58 am Post subject:
RE: SENDMAIL to Exchange 2003 |
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Not to sure how you are connecting to the Sendmail system but you could if it
accepts POP3 and SMTP set outlook up to connect to it and then create a PST
file and move the email from the server into the PST. Once that is done, use
exmerge to migrate the PST file back onto the Exchange system mailboxes.
"pscottlee" wrote:
| Quote: | Is there a way to move mail info from SENDMAIL (running on Linux) to Exchange
2003. All mail will be going through the Exchange server now. The MX
records will now point to the Exchange server. What can we do with the
emails on the SENDMAIL server? |
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Chris Priede
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Wed Dec 28, 2005 1:58 am Post subject:
Re: SENDMAIL to Exchange 2003 |
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Hi,
pscottlee wrote:
| Quote: | Is there a way to move mail info from SENDMAIL
(running on Linux) to Exchange 2003.
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Strictly speaking, sendmail only delivers mail, much like IIS SMTP service.
Any kind of remote retrieval from local mailboxes would be happening through
other protocols (I'd guess POP3 and/or IMAP) and would be handled by other
software -- not sendmail. So, the real question is how your users are
retrieving their mail.
POP3 clients typically store email locally and delete it on the server after
downloading it, so in most cases there would be nothing (or very few unread
messages) to move. The easiest solution would be to have them check the
POP3 accounts one last time after the MX record changes have propogated and
no new mail is being received there.
In this scenario, if you wanted to move _all_ of their old mail to the
Exchange mailbox, you'd have to fish it out of their mail client -- the only
place where it all is. If they were using Outlook, it can be simply copied
from Personal Folders to Exchange, after the Exchange account is added to
their Outlook Profile. Alternatively, you could also let them keep their
Personal Folders files until they don't need the old email anymore (not move
it at all).
If they were using any other email client, then moving previously retrieved
email to Exchange could be extremely difficult or impossible.
Assuming the old mail exists on the server (they used IMAP or POP3 set up to
never delete anything) and you have too many mailboxes to deal with it one
at a time through Outlook, perhaps one of the products mentioned here might
help:
http://www.slipstick.com/exs/popconnect.htm
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Chris Priede
All mail will be going through the Exchange server
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pscottlee
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Wed Dec 28, 2005 1:58 am Post subject:
Re: SENDMAIL to Exchange 2003 |
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Thanks for the replies. Both suggestions sound good. SENDMAIL is currently
supporting IMAP4/POP3. Thanks!
"Chris Priede" wrote:
| Quote: | Hi,
pscottlee wrote:
Is there a way to move mail info from SENDMAIL
(running on Linux) to Exchange 2003.
Strictly speaking, sendmail only delivers mail, much like IIS SMTP service.
Any kind of remote retrieval from local mailboxes would be happening through
other protocols (I'd guess POP3 and/or IMAP) and would be handled by other
software -- not sendmail. So, the real question is how your users are
retrieving their mail.
POP3 clients typically store email locally and delete it on the server after
downloading it, so in most cases there would be nothing (or very few unread
messages) to move. The easiest solution would be to have them check the
POP3 accounts one last time after the MX record changes have propogated and
no new mail is being received there.
In this scenario, if you wanted to move _all_ of their old mail to the
Exchange mailbox, you'd have to fish it out of their mail client -- the only
place where it all is. If they were using Outlook, it can be simply copied
from Personal Folders to Exchange, after the Exchange account is added to
their Outlook Profile. Alternatively, you could also let them keep their
Personal Folders files until they don't need the old email anymore (not move
it at all).
If they were using any other email client, then moving previously retrieved
email to Exchange could be extremely difficult or impossible.
Assuming the old mail exists on the server (they used IMAP or POP3 set up to
never delete anything) and you have too many mailboxes to deal with it one
at a time through Outlook, perhaps one of the products mentioned here might
help:
http://www.slipstick.com/exs/popconnect.htm
--
Chris Priede
All mail will be going through the Exchange server
now. The MX records will now point to the Exchange server. What can
we do with the emails on the SENDMAIL server?
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Jeff Cochran
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Thu Dec 29, 2005 1:01 am Post subject:
Re: SENDMAIL to Exchange 2003 |
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| Quote: | Thanks for the replies. Both suggestions sound good. SENDMAIL is currently
supporting IMAP4/POP3. Thanks!
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FWIW we are just completing a similar move. Decided to use IMAP and Outlook
to do the job. Created an IMAP account for both Exchange and our other
server, click and drag mail from one to the other. Works well, though not
automated and definitely not fast. We did have the advantage in that most
mail didn't need to be migrated, and we mostly just had a "COPYALL" account
to migrate to the Exchange Journaling account.
It's not through, moving four years of journaled mail, about 30,000 messages
per month, takes a while. Especially since we use KVS to archive the journal
account, and after moving a half year or so we need to do an offline defrag
to drop the message store size back to reasonable... :)
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