Moving From Windows Server to OS X Server

Hello,
I am taking over the control of our on site server for various reasons, mostly prior poor server management. The company that built and managed our Windows server used cheap parts and we have frequent hardware failures.
We are currently looking into moving to a Mac Mini Server. We are a small company with less than 15 employees. Our server hosts our mail, files, and soon it will host a custom built File Maker database.
I think I understand how to set up most everything, my question is how to move our mail from Microsoft Exchange 2010 to the OS X Server without losing any previous emails. We do not use Exchange for address book or any other higher functions, just e-mail. Two employees have custom folders that they would like to keep, the rest just use the standard inbox.
Any help and advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you

Use an IMAP moving utility.
IMAP moving utilities are pretty simple. They log into two IMAP servers at the same time, and simply block move the messages / folder structure over from one to the other.
The one I have used several times in the past, and can reassure you works very well, is a thing called MoveIMAPMail and is migration utility included as part of the installation of a (pretty good) mail system called Communigate. Communigate has a 'community' license mode, which gives you a license to use it for free for up to five users. So you can download and install the software without problem (from here http://www.communigate.com/main/purchase/).
Installing Communigate (temporarily) messes with any installed mail server software on your machine - which should not be an issue on most client machines, but would have implications for your server. But MoveIMAPMail does not need to run on either the source or destination machine (you can put it on any old machine that can connect to both old and new IMAP servers), so easiest is to install Communigate on some other machine. Communigate is available for a disturbing large number of platforms, so shouldn't be a problem.
Once installed, simply follow the clear instructions for migrating given on the MoveIMAPMail page of the Communigate help system. The utility doesn't care what server software the source or destination servers are running.
N.B. The source server is not affected by the operation of MoveIMAPMail, so you can have serveral goes at the migration if you like, without affecting existing user files etc.
When you have done, all the user accounts and associated mail stacks will have been moved to the new server. Uninstall Communigate and you are in the clear.
If you don't want to use the Communigate utility, there is a sourceforge project claiming to do the same thing, but I've not tried it. But easy enough to test it out I would imagine. Plus if you google, you'll see at least one other PHP based script solution out there.
HTH

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