MS Exchange to MBOX

[Kevin Kramer]

we are working on a migration path from 3 separate mail servers (1 Exch 
5.5, and 2 mbox on freebsd).

some info on Zimbra

 the AJAX web client is the best client. all features are available (doc 
sharing, calendar viewing, etc). Outlook 2007 client currently not 
supported to connect to Zimbra server, they are working on it. The 
Outlook "migrator" worked great, it is some sort of plugin that makes 
Outlook connect to the server, all functionality in outlook is there, 
even syncing. They also have good support for getting your mail on your 
phone.

I'm still in the discovery process.

I would also tell you to consider MAILDIR format. It is faster than 
MBOX. there are some perl scripts to convert from MBOX.

I think my path will be to start delivering mail to the new server and 
tell users to copy, archive, etc the old location if they want to keep it.

a quick google for pst to mbox came up with some info for you also. HTH

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Kevin Kramer
Sr. Systems Administrator
512.418.5725
Centaur Technology, Inc.
www.centtech.com



Justin Zygmont wrote the following on 08/15/07 11:23:
> Chris wrote:
>> On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 12:58:13 -0600
>> Joshua Gimer <jgimer at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> We are planning on moving a large amount of Exchange mailboxes to  
>>> UNIX mbox format.
>>>
>>> My question is, does anyone know of any projects out there or of 
>>> any  tools that can assist in this conversion?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Josh
>>>
>>
>> An alternative to consider, Zimbra. It has an app that will atlease
>> allow you to pull in the mail to it's server and you still keep a
>> certain amount of collaboration.
>
> I wonder if anyone knows if it has any compatibility with exchange, 
> such as sharing calendars, and scheduling?
>
>
>
> Justin Zygmont
> System and Network Administrator
> Cityfone Telecommunications Inc
>
> 604.629.8841
> justin at cityfone dot net
>