MigrationGuide

Generally, there are two ways in which you can migrate emails over to MailArchiva:

1) Import emails directly from the MailArchiva GUI (EE)

2) Import emails using command-line based utilities in the MailArchiva _Utilities package (EE & OSE)

For command line utility imports, you'll need to download the mailarchiva_utilities package available from http://www.mailarchiva.com/downloads. This package contains a variety of utilities that may prove useful in your migration efforts.

Note: the below is not a substitute for reading through the Admin Guide.

Email Migration From Microsoft Exchange 2000/2003

1) Follow the instructions in the Admin Guide and run the direct Exchange import from the MailArchiva GUI (EE)

2) Use the ExchangeImport commandline utility in the mailarchiva utilities package to import messages via Exchange's Web Dav interface (OSE && EE)

3) Configure the Exchange M-Drive and run the MailarchivaImport utility as described in ExchangeMigration (OSE && EE)

Email Migration From Microsoft Exchange 2007/2010

1) Follow the instructions in the Admin Guide and run the direct Exchange import from the MailArchiva GUI (EE)

2) Use the ExchangeImport commandline utility in the mailarchiva utilities package to import messages via Exchange's web services interface (OSE & EE)

3) Export emails to PST and then use the MailarchivaImport utility (available in utilities package) to import the PST file (OSE & EE)

See: http://www.ditii.com/2007/04/13/how-to-export-and-import-mailboxes-to-pst-files-in-exchange-2007-sp1/

Email Migration From Outlook PST Files

1) Run the new MailarchivaImport utility (available in the mailarchiva_utilities package) (OSE & EE)

Note: The PST2MailArchiva.exe is now discontinued in favour of the MailarchivaImport utility which is capable of handling
a wide range of formats (including PST)

Email Migration From EML or MSG Files

1) Use the message import function in the MailArchiva GUI (EE)

2) Use MailarchivaImport utility in the MailArchiva utilities package (EE & OSE)

The MailarchivaImport utility has the capability to sweep up millions of EML or MSG files from the file system. Please refer to the README file in the mailarchiva_utilities package.

Email Migration From Maildir

1) Use the message import function in the MailArchiva GUI (EE)

2) Since Maildir stores emails in standard RFC2822 format, you can simply use the MailarchivaImport utility as described above. (OSE & EE)

Email Migration From MBOX Format

1) Use the message import function in the MailArchiva GUI (EE)

2) Use the MailarchivaImport utility. Note: There is a switch in MailarchivaImport that causes the utility to migrate emails from MBOX format.

Email Migration From IMAP/POP Servers

The IMAP/POP client within MailArchiva is used for the active archiving of the journal account. It is not recommended to use it for purposes of migrating your old emails to MailArchiva.

The MailArchiva mail archiving solution essay editing embeds a lightweight SMTP server and thus can integrate with a wide variety of mail servers. In the Listeners section of the Configuration screen, you can change the listening port from 8091 to 25 (the standard SMTP server port).

To suck emails from POP or IMAP servers, use the well known Linux fetchmail utility. This utility fetches mail from remote mailservers and forwards it to your local (client) machine’s delivery system (i.e. MailArchiva). The fetchmail utility can be run in a daemon mode to repeatedly poll one or more systems at a specified interval.

The fetchmail program can gather mail from servers supporting any of the common mail-retrieval protocols: POP2 (legacy, to be removed from future release), POP3, IMAP2bis, IMAP4, and IMAP4rev1. It can also use the ESMTP ETRN extension and ODMR.

Examples of working fetchmail:

This will fetch all emails from the INBOX folder of an IMAP server. Make sure to change USERNAME and MAIL.SER.VER. Also, verify MailArchiva is listening on 8091 fetchmail -a -k -v -u "USERNAME" -S localhost/8091 -p imap MAIL.SER.VER

This will fetch all emails from the INBOX\old-messages folder fetchmail -a -k -v -r "INBOX.old-messages" -u "USERNAME" -S localhost/8091 -p imap MAIL.SER.VER

To achieve this on Windows, you can use the handy Postie utility available at http://www.infradig.com/.

{insert postie commandline parameters below}

-- TWikiGuest - 20 Jul 2008