| Title: | Ultrix Mail -- talk to the world! |
| Notice: | Please introduce yourself in note 3 |
| Moderator: | FORTY2::BOYES |
| Created: | Mon Jun 27 1988 |
| Last Modified: | Wed May 28 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1230 |
| Total number of notes: | 4591 |
Hi! This is probably committing blasphemy in this conference, but does anyone know how to convert Ultrix mail to Microsoft Exchange? The obvious solution is to mail everything to yourself and let the POP server do its thing, but that buries the original mail header and I'd like to preserve that if I could. My POP server running on Ultrix works fine, but I haven't found a way to "trick it" into thinking that old mail is new. If I could, then the headers would be preserved, even if the dates would be reset to today. The corporate Microsoft Exchange effort seems to only encompass OpenVMS and All-In-1 account email migrations. There doesn't seem to be any emphasis on UNIX-based migrations. Pointers to either commercial or shareware tools are welcome. Thanks, Larry
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| 1227.1 | netrix.lkg.dec.com::thomas | The Code Warrior | Tue Feb 18 1997 15:51 | 4 | |
The best way is to use MH rcvdist to "mail it to yourself" with the original headers. Then you bring it into Exchange via POP. Some resent headers get tacked on. | |||||
| 1227.2 | Much closer, but no cigar yet | NETCAD::STEFANI | FDDI Adapters R Us | Thu Feb 20 1997 03:16 | 28 |
Hi Matt, >>The best way is to use MH rcvdist to "mail it to yourself" with the original >>headers. Then you bring it into Exchange via POP. Thanks for the suggestion. I started playing with rcvdist and had limited success. Some messages worked, while others didn't. By the way, the messages that worked came through onto my Exchange client with the From/To lines intact and the original Send dates. Very nice. On the messages that DIDN'T work, unfortunately, a lot of my mail has "bad headers" so rcvdist complains. For example, I get error messages like: post: bad address ':STEFANI' - illegal address construct (:), continuing... post: message has no Date: header post: re-format message and try again I know the mail isn't formatted properly, but mh was forgiving when the mail came in, so there should be a way to make it forgiving on resend. I checked the man page for post and tried a bunch of "no..." switches (noformat, nofilter, etc) but I'm still getting the failues. Any ideas? Thanks! Larry | |||||