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Hi all,

I want to migrate all mailboxes from Cyrus to Scalix.

I have tested the following three methods:

1) I have installed the outlook connector.
In this profile I have configured an imap account (to Cyrus).
Within Outlook I drag all messages from Cyrus to Scalix.
I have experienced problems with some emails and with "read receipts" emails.

2) I have tryed with "imapsync".
I have experienced problems with the file winmail.dat.

3) I have exported the mailbox to a *.pst file and then imported this file into Scalix
This works perfectly ... for me.

I see that there is the manual "Scalix Migration Guide".

I have the following question:
what is the advantage in the method described in "Scalix Migration Guide" compared to simple exporting in a *.pst file ?


Thanks for any information. Miche

mrezzonico wrote:Hi all,

I want to migrate all mailboxes from Cyrus to Scalix.

I have tested the following three methods:

1) I have installed the outlook connector.
In this profile I have configured an imap account (to Cyrus).
Within Outlook I drag all messages from Cyrus to Scalix.
I have experienced problems with some emails and with "read receipts" emails.

2) I have tryed with "imapsync".
I have experienced problems with the file winmail.dat.

3) I have exported the mailbox to a *.pst file and then imported this file into Scalix
This works perfectly ... for me.

I see that there is the manual "Scalix Migration Guide".

I have the following question:
what is the advantage in the method described in "Scalix Migration Guide" compared to simple exporting in a *.pst file ?


Thanks for any information. Miche

sxmigrate allows direct import of pst's into scalix.

simple exporting of a pst requires outlook to import the pst. So its a two step process for each user.

sxmigrate is not free, it does cost per mailbox and i think is only available for Fully licensed versions.

I have not used sxmigrate before.

In my experience it comes down to this how many users you have and how much time it will take.

You can spend hours just trying to get an automated process working, and if you just fired off with pst export/import you may have finished in that time.

Imapsync will correctly do all folders except for special folders like calendar, contacts, notes etc. So you'd have to do pst import/export anyway for those folders.

And get people to cleanup sent items and deleted items before hand.

Hope that helps.

Hi

No no advantage. You still need Outlook on your migration PC.
The main reason for using sxmigrate to to fixup Exchange addressing issues.
You can bypass this as you are using pop mail with local calenders etc

But if you would really like to pay for sxmigrate we would be happy to recieve your order!!!!!

Mike

Hi,

thanks for the information.



My preferred method will be to use "imapsync".
With "imapsync" a lots of emails appears (in Scalix) with the attachment "winmail.dat".
Is it possible to avoid this ?

Thanks. Miche

mrezzonico wrote:Hi,

thanks for the information.

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Imapsync will correctly do all folders except for special folders like calendar, contacts, notes etc.

My preferred method will be to use "imapsync".
With "imapsync" a lots of emails appears (in Scalix) with the attachment "winmail.dat".
Is it possible to avoid this ?

Thanks. Miche

Nope. All those special folders dont transfer items correctly, they transfer winmail.dat files which end up being pretty useless.

Only solution for those special folders is pst import/exports. imapsync will do all other standard mail folders fine.

p.s. make sure the originating folders dont have special characters like /, &, ! etc.