Carl Brewer wrote: > My applogies for the off topic question, but I figure that here is > likely to be a huge pool of experience with what I'm trying to do. > > I'm migrating a small business away from exchange to a cyrus imapd > mail server (one for the good guys!). There's only one mail > account, but it's got thousands of archived emails sitting on > the exchange server - so many that I tried to import them into > Mozilla Thunderbird with the import tool, and after letting it run > for 12 hours, it had hardly moved the progress bar. I think the PC > hasn't enough grunt to do it. It's an old win98 box with abuot 64 MB > or so of RAM. > > Can anyone here suggest another way to extract this email from the > exchange server onto my new NetBSD cyrus server, so my user can > get at his old email? > > thanks! > > Carl > > --- > Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus > Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu > List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
Install fetchmail on the cyrus server. See http://catb.org/~esr/fetchmail/ Good luck, Dave --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
