>> We are looking at replacing our Windows Servers with Xserves (YAY!!!). >> However, we are currently using SmarterMail for our own, and our clients >> email. I have not been able to find anything, but is it possible to >> migrate our mail currently in SmarterMail over to SquirrelMail? > > SmarterMail looks to be a Windows-based mail server. SquirrelMail is > not a mail server - it is ONLY the webmail client part of the equation. > The best place to ask this question is probably to > SmarterTools themselves, and the question should be more about if/how > you can migrate your mail store from SmarterMail to a *nix system -- which > system that is also matters: if you are running Cyrus on your new servers, > for example, that needs to be part of the question. In general, migrating > mail stores from a Windows environment to a *nix one will probably be > difficult in one way or another, no matter the software involved. If it's > acceptable to get your users involved and you can have both systems > running at the same time (and SmarterMail supports IMAP), you can have the > users do the migration themselves by setting up their desktop IMAP clients > (not a webmail client!) to > access BOTH servers, and just drag and drop their mail from one IMAP > server to the other. Personally I use "imapsync"[1] when migrating from one IMAP server to another. That way I don't need to involve the users when migrating. Sincerely, Fredrik [1] http://www.linux-france.org/prj/imapsync/README http://www.linux-france.org/prj/imapsync/ http://freshmeat.net/projects/imapsync/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/postingguidelines List address: squirrelmail-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx List archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List info (subscribe/unsubscribe/change options): https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
