> Tarjei Huse wrote: >> tir, 19,.10.2004 kl. 07.24 -0400, skrev Base David: >> >>>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? >> >> >> My experience is that normal Outlook is the best tool for something like >> this if the mail is on a clientsystem. > > *nod* > > I'm going to install outlook on a box here to do the extraction, > as I have the server here at home now, but not the client.
If you are doing it via IMAP, I can always suggest using Netscape 4.8 for it. You can copy complete Folder trees with one click which is what most modern clients only allow for a sinlge folder. Simon --- 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
