10.5.x mail server migration to 10.6 (non upgrade)

Hi all,
So I have been reading up on the various issues with upgrading 10.5.x servers to 10.6 however my question involves going from a 10.5.x server to a clean 10.6 server (non upgrade install). I generally start fresh with a new OS and migrate the data anyway however this is the first time I have experienced a switch away from cyrus (Instead of to cyrus which I have done enough now).
Has anyone done this yet? With the switch to dovecot, I am unsure how this works from a migration standpoint. Can I just use ditto to move the mail stores over and then the new dovecot server will simply recognize everything? I somehow feel like it can't be that easy with cyrus involved (though cyrus has worked well for me).
I recall seeing an imap sync tool some use here to transfer imap mail to a new / different server. Would that be the preferred method? Mailbfr hasn't been updated for 10.6 yet so I can wait for that amazing software as well but I am itching to test our mail stores and scripts, etc out on the test box.
I have a test server that is being freed up this week so I'll try myself anyway but was wondering if anyone had performed this sort of migration yet in a non upgrade fashion?

John Lockwood wrote:
Shane Depner1 wrote:
Hi all,
So I have been reading up on the various issues with upgrading 10.5.x servers to 10.6 however my question involves going from a 10.5.x server to a clean 10.6 server (non upgrade install). I generally start fresh with a new OS and migrate the data anyway however this is the first time I have experienced a switch away from cyrus (Instead of to cyrus which I have done enough now).
Has anyone done this yet? With the switch to dovecot, I am unsure how this works from a migration standpoint. Can I just use ditto to move the mail stores over and then the new dovecot server will simply recognize everything? I somehow feel like it can't be that easy with cyrus involved (though cyrus has worked well for me).
I recall seeing an imap sync tool some use here to transfer imap mail to a new / different server. Would that be the preferred method? Mailbfr hasn't been updated for 10.6 yet so I can wait for that amazing software as well but I am itching to test our mail stores and scripts, etc out on the test box.
I have a test server that is being freed up this week so I'll try myself anyway but was wondering if anyone had performed this sort of migration yet in a non upgrade fashion?
Kerio provide a free tool to do IMAP migrations to Kerio, something similar for (Snow) Leopard Server would be nice. However it might be possible to do basically the same thing via the command line using Dovecot's own routines.
See http://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration
That page also refers to an open source utility called imapsync to do direct IMAP transfers, it looks like it is a Perl program and should run on a Mac (it will almost certainly need some Perl modules adding and this requires you to install XCode). Ah! I have just found another tool called Larch which is written in Ruby, this looks from reports to be more flexible and more reliable.
imapsync - http://freshmeat.net/projects/imapsync
Larch - http://github.com/rgrove/larch/tree/master
Let me know if you successfully do an IMAP->IMAP migration. If anyone manages to use Larch under Mac OS X let us know what was involved. I have done some Perl, and a bit of PHP but never touched Ruby before.
I've used imapsync in the past; it is fairly reliable, although there are definitely a few caveats that you must read the documentation to catch (for example, there is a command-line switch that, if not used, will reset the sent/received dates of ALL transferred email to the current date, and another that is used to preserve the seen/unseen status). Getting it up and running requires (or at least required, as of my last use of it back in July of this year, on a 10.5 server) installing of a few Perl modules from CPAN as well, necessitating the installation of XCode on the server; you are correct on that point. That being said, it's a pretty handy tool for doing a wide variety of migrations, as it doesn't care WHAT the source and destination mail servers are, so long as they both speak IMAP. There are, of course, minor issues if the source server is Microsoft Exchange, since Exchange's IMAP implementation is a bit ... nonstandard ... at times.
Just my $0.02 on that topic

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There are generally three approaches, if the old mail server stores the emails in a suitable format, one option is to migrate those, however with the wide variety of different servers in use this approach is rarely one that will be possible unless for example you are moving say a postfix implementation on Linux to one on the Mac.
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Hi Dave-Houston,
According to your description, I notice that you cannot properly configure Outlook with your primary office 365 account after reinstall Outlook client.
If I have misunderstand your concern, please don’t hesitate to let me know.
If possible, please try to configure your e-mail account on another computer. If it works fine, it indicate that the issue is relate to your computer, for example residual registry information about primary account, incorrect username and password.
Please try to open Control Panel--> User Accounts---> Credential Manager, double check whether store some incorrect credential. If so, we can delete it and try again.
Additional, please try to re-create a user account for testing. More details about
Create a user account, please refer to:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/create-user-account#create-user-account=windows-7
If problem persists, please pay attention to the link below, for your reference:
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/2404385?wa=wsignin1.0
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The problem
I am migrating a mail server from 10.5 to 10.6 (as the first step to moving to 10.8).
I'm trying to migrate mail from Cyrus to Dovecot, using the command migrate_mail_data.pl but I keep getting the error:
Error: cvt_cyrusdb does not exist in: .
Background
An example of how to use the command is at:
http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/dovecot/dovecot-239/dovecot.Config/migrat e_mail_data.pl
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Locating my files
Locate all of my files:
sudo find / -name migrate_mail_data.pl
/usr/libexec/dovecot/migrate_mail_data.pl
sudo find / -name cvt_cyrusdb
/usr/bin/cyrus/bin/cvt_cyrusdb
--database files are at the default location:
/private/var/imap
--sourceSpool files are at the default location:
/private/var/spool/imap
--targetSpool is set for:
"Volumes/Iomega1TB/121014/121005Dovecot/mail"
What I've tried
So, I've tried the following commands (and many other variations!):
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sudo /usr/libexec/dovecot/migrate_mail_data.pl --moveMail 0 --cyrusbin "/usr/bin/cyrus/bin/" -- database "/var/imap/" --sourceSpool "/var/spool/imap/" --targetSpool "Volumes/Iomega1TB/121014/121005Dovecot/mail/"
sudo /usr/libexec/dovecot/migrate_mail_data.pl --moveMail 0 --cyrusbin /usr/bin/cyrus/bin/ -- database /var/imap/ --sourceSpool /var/spool/imap/ --targetSpool "Volumes/Iomega1TB/121014/121005Dovecot/mail/"
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Error: cvt_cyrusdb does not exist in: .
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What am I doing wrong?
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Migration scenario from 3rd party mail server to GW12?

Hi
We need to migrate from existing e-mail server (Axigen ) to GW12.
The main concern is how to do that as quickly as possible or step by step without disrupting mail traffic and users.
Here is the situation:
In local network there is mentioned Axigen mail server serving aprox 70 users at single location.
Our official domain is hosted outside by Hosting provider where their mail server forwards all mail to our DDNS address where is ported to local mail server. Forwarding is performed discrete on user base. Each [email protected] is forwarded to [email protected]. where local server taking over.
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Second advantage is that we can use anti spam and virus blocking at the providers side.
Both functionality we could'nt achieve with simple global forwarding of all mail to local server.
This comment is digresion from main topic.
Outgoing mail is relayed by local server over our Internet Connection provider's SMPT host.
Local mail is delivered locally.
We maintain local DNS server too.
Most users are using POP service, while IMAP is used by few only. All users are using Thunderbird so far.
All users in the future should use full GW capabilities with regular GW client, mobile clients and so on.
GW12 server is installed and up already. It is tested locally and tested for remote sending. So, only remote receiving is not tested yet, so neither correct domain is set yet.
Present users authentication is performed by Axigen server and LDAP connection to eDir. STARTTLS is used between clients and server.
Our plan is simple to change local DNS record point to new GW server, to change NAT/routing point to new server and set correct domain for the GW server.
We expect that this will be transparent for users while they will continue to use Thunderbird (certificate mismatch will be issued by first connection and first mail sending. But we plan to warn users in advance together with instructions what to do. My phone will ring that morning many times, I am sure). Few IMAP accounts we can prepare in advance by move mail manually to local folders and back to GW server later.
Latest step should be migrate users from Thunderbird to GW client. This need to be perfomed manually at each user seat. Each Thunderbird client need to be switched to IMAP and then mail need to move to GW server.
Here is concern about old mail volume. Many users have their old mail archived in local folders by years. Some of them has quite huge amount of archived mails with heavy attachments. However old mail can be moved gradually later.
So, this is our plan. Does anybody has any suggestion, comment or wish to point some problem we didn't aware of?
Thank you.
Drazen

On 9/24/2012 3:56 AM, dzuvela wrote:
>
> Hi
> We need to migrate from existing e-mail server ('Axigen '
> (http://www.axigen.com/)) to GW12.
> The main concern is how to do that as quickly as possible or step by
> step without disrupting mail traffic and users.
>
> Here is the situation:
> In local network there is mentioned Axigen mail server serving aprox 70
> users at single location.
> Our official domain is hosted outside by Hosting provider where their
> mail server forwards all mail to our DDNS address where is ported to
> local mail server. Forwarding is performed discrete on user base. Each
> [email protected] is forwarded to [email protected]. where local
> server taking over.
>
> This setting is harder to maintain because it is necessary to
> maintain users and aliases on outside server manually. However, this
> setting has some advantages. First of all, forwarding is happened
> immediately. If for some reason , local server is unreachable, outside
> server will keep on trying for two more days.
> Second advantage is that we can use anti spam and virus blocking at the
> providers side.
> Both functionality we could'nt achieve with simple global forwarding of
> all mail to local server.
> This comment is digresion from main topic.
>
> Outgoing mail is relayed by local server over our Internet Connection
> provider's SMPT host.
> Local mail is delivered locally.
>
> We maintain local DNS server too.
>
> Most users are using POP service, while IMAP is used by few only. All
> users are using Thunderbird so far.
>
> All users in the future should use full GW capabilities with regular GW
> client, mobile clients and so on.
>
> GW12 server is installed and up already. It is tested locally and
> tested for remote sending. So, only remote receiving is not tested yet,
> so neither correct domain is set yet.
>
> Present users authentication is performed by Axigen server and LDAP
> connection to eDir. STARTTLS is used between clients and server.
>
>
> Our plan is simple to change local DNS record point to new GW server,
> to change NAT/routing point to new server and set correct domain for the
> GW server.
> We expect that this will be transparent for users while they will
> continue to use Thunderbird (certificate mismatch will be issued by
> first connection and first mail sending. But we plan to warn users in
> advance together with instructions what to do. My phone will ring that
> morning many times, I am sure). Few IMAP accounts we can
> prepare in advance by move mail manually to local folders and back to GW
> server later.
>
> Latest step should be migrate users from Thunderbird to GW client. This
> need to be perfomed manually at each user seat. Each Thunderbird client
> need to be switched to IMAP and then mail need to move to GW server.
> Here is concern about old mail volume. Many users have their old mail
> archived in local folders by years. Some of them has quite huge amount
> of archived mails with heavy attachments. However old mail can be moved
> gradually later.
>
>
> So, this is our plan. Does anybody has any suggestion, comment or wish
> to point some problem we didn't aware of?
>
> Thank you.
> Drazen
>
>
most of this sounds good. With such heavy imap/pop usage, you MIGHT
want to consider installing a temporary dedicated gwia just for that
separate from the smtp handling gwia. But that might not be necessary at
all. 70 people isn't THAT much.

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I once again get the same error messages, nothing "tweaked" in the mail settings, this is still the clean, brand-new server:
mail.log just says:
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system.log:
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Actually Mail/iCal/Contacts are the last services running on this server (with Open Directory for authentication). After the format/reinstall the OS-X Server will only act as :
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- Software Update
- Caching
I'll probably use the MacPro (12-core, 32 GB) to video processing and use a MacMini i7 as server.
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Hi all,
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I agree with the points made by Strontium90. If you have any PCs then Apple's mail/contacts/calendar software is a poor choice. Kerio Connect as a mail/contacts/calendar server would not only support Macs but would also do a good job supporting PCs running Outlook.
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Apple's Mail client uses EWS to connect to a 'real' MS Exhange server.

Migrating FROM Gmail to 10.6 Mail server

I am in the process of setting up a new 10.6 Server to be used for internal Mail, iChat, iCal, Wiki, & File Sharing. We are currently using Gmail for all email.
Can anyone recommend the best way to move all current emails in each account on Gmail to the SL Server that I am setting up possibly in a manner that involves as little downtime as possible?
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L Nail

That you're asking this question is somewhat concerning.
Depending on the tool (and in the typical case), you're transferring messages directly from one mail server to another mail server.
Actually, since this is the first Mac OS X server, and mail server at that matter, that I have set up, I do believe that this is a valid question, and shouldn't be alarming one bit. I have not yet turned on the mail server, nor have I begun to delve into all of the documentation yet, as the mail server is the last part to implement.
Presuming imapsync, you're using a tool that pretends to be a mail client to two different mail servers in parallel; it pulls down messages from one and synchronizes those messages directly to another server.
For another document on the imapsync tool, here is the [imapsync readme|http://www.linux-france.org/prj/imapsync/README] via [Freshmeat|http://freshmeat.net/projects/imapsync>
Thank you for the direction to some more documentation on imapsync!
lnail

Migrating From Exchange To OSX Mail Server Question

I'm switching my small business to a Mac based office from Windows. I'm thinking about OSX Server (or Snow Leopard Server when it comes out). I'm comfortable with everything about it, but not being much of an IT person, I have a question about the Mail Server.
We have 7 employees. Each will have his own email account. We will also have one "group" email account that we will all need to access. On my current Exchange server, it's no problem. I haven't read anything about the Mac Servers that allows this from ALL the clients. Can this be done with the Mac servers and if so, where can I read about it?
I will also need to be able to manage the server remotely. I assume there's no problem with that, yes?
Sorry for what may seem to be naive questions, but this whole point is to be able to get rid of the PC crap and all the complications that come with it. Thank you in advance for your help.

You can set Access Control Lists on mailboxes allowing other users to have access to them. So, your Group email account would be an eighth user per se, and the other seven users would see this user's Inbox in their folder list.
Note that there is no GUI for doing this. You either need to use the command line tools to configure this or a third party GUI tool called SirAdmin.
Yes, OS X Server can be managed remotely, using a variety of tools ranging in complexity and power. It is UNIX after all

Mail Server Hosted on outlook freely but services for same getting shut from 31 july 2014

Dear Sir/ Madam,
My Mail Server Hosted on outlook freely but services for same getting shutting from 31
july 2014,
i want to continue the same product please advice me to get the same, i got the mail from outlook is follow
Dear Outlook.com Customer,
About a month ago, we let you know that Outlook.com no longer supports new custom domain sign ups. As a current customer, we will continue to support the ability to log in to Outlook.com with your existing custom domain email address, but as of 31 July 2014,
you will no longer be able to add or remove accounts in your domain.
Instead, we recommend that administrators who wish to continue managing email addresses in their domain should consider Office 365 – Microsoft's premium online email service. By migrating to Office 365, you will be able to continue managing your custom domains,
as well as benefit from modern enterprise-class mail, collaboration and communication tools.
The previous email we sent you contained a complimentary 90-day subscription to Office 365 Small Business Premium for 5 users. This is a reminder that you need to redeem this offer before 15 July 2014.
You will still be able to log in to Outlook.com with your custom domain during your Office 365 subscription, even if you choose to cancel your Office 365 subscription.
How to migrate your account
You can find a step-by-step guide to migrating your account here.
Yours sincerely,
The Outlook.com Team
please help me,
my contact no is - +91-9619899231

Hi,
Yes, as what Roady says, Outlook.com no longer supports new custom domain sign-ups. You can continue to login to Outlook.com with your existing custom domain email addresses. But after July 2014, domain administrators will no longer be able add or remove
email accounts in your domain.
Please consider to move to Office 365 to get enhanced features and capabilities for modern enterprise-class mail, collaboration and communications. About how to move your custom domain to Office 365, please refer to:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/migrate-custom-domain
Regards,
Winnie Liang
TechNet Community Support

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