Sendmail mailboxes migration to Messaging

Hi there,
I have users using Sendmail and I need to migrate to: Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.1
The users already have mails in their mailboxes and we need to migrate it to the messaging mailboxes structure.
I find in the documentation (early version of the messaging system, I guess) a command to do that: MigrateUnixSpool. But that command does not exist in my Messaging version.
Does anybody knows about how can I migrate the mailboxes, or explain me how can I program a script to do that? I'm talking about 4,000 users with mailboxes.
Any help is welcome!!.
Regards.

Imsimport expects to see the files as local. You could NFS mount 'em, I suppose.
Just make sure that Sendmail isn't putting new mails in while you're importing the old mails. . .
You could have Messaging Server up and running for new mail, while doing the import, though.

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I have been reading section 2.5 of the Administration Guide. The options to migrate user mailboxes are as follow:
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