.sxmboxexp format conversion?

[RickC]

I asked the same thing, even opened a support call. Nada, Scalix doesn't use the industry standard text mbox, they have their own 'mbox' which cannot be loaded into anything other than other scalix boxes.

[Valerion]

You have to take the long route here. Import it into a Scalix mailbox on a test server, then use something like imapsync to send it to a IMAP mailbox in mbox format.

[RickC]

Hi, can you clarify ... when you say "send it to an IMAP mailbox in mbox format" - are you saying use imapsync to send it to a non-Scalix account, that will allow us to export it to text mbox?

Thanks,

Rick

[Valerion]

Correct. You can use a server like dovecot or similar that uses the mbox format in the backend, but it must not be a Scalix mailbox.

imapsync is designed to do mailbox-to-mailbox migrations between IMAP servers. There are several other such tools as well.

[hydrospace]

In general the mailmover would do the trick and converts the sxmboxexp files into pst files. Anyway it needs to be purchased from the vendor and I do not know how much they would charge for it at least the evaluation licenses do really stop after 5 runs or so. Anyway the mapping setup is really tricky as well. And last but no least: pst is a proprietary format as well and can only be read by using outlook so far (or used with TB to import into any imap mailbox). I do not know if you need address mapping within the process of converting the data if so: "Happy mapping " otherwise send me a PM if you have further questions.

Forgot one thing: mialmover supports afaik only omcpoutu dumps which are limited to the well know ~2 GB limit... (anyway sxmboxexp should work but I never run any tests with sxboxexp'ed mailboxes ony omcpoutu ones...). I know splitting the export might be an option as well but this is really hard to handle..

Stefan