RE: [Exim] Question regarding migration to exim

Chris J. Babyak wrote:
> What kind of migration technique would be the best for moving this
> old mail? There's always drag/drop which is effective enough for a
> few users, but not for more than 5 or 10. Mailstores could be
> converted from maildir to mbox with qmail's maildir2mbox utility and
> then the newly created inbox file transferred -this seems to work OK
> if the user hasn't been already using the new box. But for the user
> who has new mail already on the new box and needs their old mail, is
> just appending the old mail (converted maildir2mbox file) to the new
> inbox file OK? Or does that present problems for the way mbox format
> files are read. Popping the old mail over to the new box via
> SquirrelMail's mail_fetch utility might work out, but I believe
> there's an issue with having dates on the mail carried across.

Is there some reason why you're moving from Maildir to mbox? Exim supports
both quite easily.

Steven
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Steven Dickenson <sdickenson@???>
Network Administrator
The Key School, Annapolis Maryland