Host-based client to Exchange

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Contents 1 Introduction 1.1 Important Notes 1.2 Organize Email 1.3 Migration To Outlook

Introduction

When using a host-based email client, such as MUTT, all mail resides on the server. In this way, host-based client use is very similar to an IMAP configuration using a GUI client such as Thunderbird.

The strategy outlined below does not use third party software and also strives to retain a similar mailbox configuration from the user's perspective. This method involves configuring Outlook 2003, Outlook 2007 or Entourage 2004 for both the POBOX Classic and ISC Exchange accounts. Basically, the strategy is to use the Outlook 2003, Outlook 2007, or Entourage 2004 interface to copy all the messages from the POBOX Classic server and to paste them to the appropriate folders on the Exchange Server.

Important Notes

• These instructions make the assumption that the user wishes to mirror their existing mail structure in Outlook, by migrating those messages currently stored on the POBOX server to the Exchange server.
• These instructions make the assumption that Outlook 2003, Outlook 2007, or Entourage has already been installed, updated, and configured for POBOX Exchange. For configuration instructions, see:

How to Configure Outlook 2003 for Exchange, or How to Configure Outlook 2007 for Exchange, or How to Configure Entourage 2004 for Exchange

Organize Email

1. Organize the email and delete old email that will never be needed.
2. The standard mailbox size on Exchange is 250 MB. If the user's POBOX Classic account uses a higher quota than that, increase the Exchange quota accordingly.

Migration To Outlook

As stated above, these instructions assume Outlook or Entourage has already been configured for ISC Exchange.

1. Configure Outlook or Entourage to connect to the user's account on POBOX Classic using IMAP (see instructions for Outlook 2007 or Outlook 2003).
2. Expand both the POBOX Classic and ISC Exchange mailboxes.
3. For folders that are created by default by Outlook (i.e. Inbox, Sent and Drafts) manually copy the contents of the POBOX Classic IMAP folders to their Exchange equivalents. Also copy all folders that the user has created on the POBOX Classic server and put a copy in their Exchange mailbox. It is important to move these folders directly from POBOX Classic to the Exchange folder to preserve time stamps. Anything passed to a personal folder and then to the Exchange server will lose original time/date stamps.
4. After all mail is migrated, remove the POBOX Classic account from Outlook. This does not delete the POBOX account, but rather just removes access to it from the Outlook client. To accomplish this, in Outlook select Options in the Tools menu. On the Mail Setup Tab, click Email Accounts. Highlight the POBOX account and click Remove.
5. After all the mail is successfully migrated, send a series of test messages to and from the account to verify that that routing is working appropriately and that mail is being stored in desired folders.