Export existing emails from R5 to R8

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hi,

I have installed the new Lotus Domino Server 8.0 and Lotus Notes Client 8.0 on our new Server. Our existing old server is running on Windows NT and installed with Lotus Domino R5. and Notes R5. I need to export/copy all the existing mails/mailboxes to from R5 to R8 for the clients. In Microsoft Outlook we can export all the folders like Inbox, Draft, Sent items, Contacts etc. But in Notes client, I cannot export my mails from R5 client to R8. How can I get this done? Any idea.

I tried the Refresh Design and Replace Design function which resulted in erros…Please help…

Many Thanks

Prasad

prasadkmenon@aloala.com

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Subject: convert

Hi!

Just a simple way…

Put the old mail file/s (as replica) on your new R8 server. Then issue the following commands on the server console.

tell router quit (to stop mail routing)

load convert -u mail\database.nsf * mail8.ntf (to convert the mail file)

load router (to start the router, convert must be finished before that)

Please consider, that you are going on to make a kind of non-supported upgrade (5=>8), a lot of things have changed between those versions.

And: users need the R8 Notes client to use the R8 mail template.

Yours,

René