G’day all
Our company is currently using Thunderbird as a mail client. Next week we are going to migrated from our current mail system to Domino 8. I’ve been given the task of training our staff to use the Notes client, and to migrate the users from Thunderbird to Notes.
My question is, How does one import mail from Thunderbird to Notes? Obviously, due to the fact that our users have been using Thunderbird for a while now, we need access to our old mails. I’ve spent some time browsing the net and still haven’t managed to come to a solution on the matter. I’ve found lots of info about migrating from Outlook to Notes but nothing on Thunderbird.
Any assistance on how one could do this would be most appreciated.
Cheers
Shaun
Subject: IMAPsync
If the mail for these users is on the old server and it can speak IMAP, you can use the freely available IMAPsync tool. We are using it for a large migration from an IMAP server to Domino for thousands of accounts, and with a little elbow grease and some minimal coding this thing can move mail via imap.
Requires you enable IMAP on domino during conversion of course. In order to populate the sent view in Domino from a sent folder in an IMAP client, you have to run an agent which zeros out the “posted date” (I believe) to make the sent view present those messages there.
It is very fast because there is no conversion–it is simply talking imap and copying messages from one store to another via that protocol. Once done, you’ll need to turn of imap if desired on Domino and do a load convert to unenable IMAP on those mail files if desired.
Because this is a sync
Subject: Aget to zero out the “posted date”
Have anybody got an agent to zero out the “posted date” in a Sent form?
Subject: Re: Migration to Notes
I performed a cursory search of the Lotus KB and Google and have yet to find any recommendations regarding a migration path from Thunderbird/mbox to Notes/NSF.
As a reference, I did come across what claims to be a conversion tool, but I have no experience with it.
http://www.connectedsw.com/Overview/57263
I would suggest opening a PMR with Lotus Support to confirm if there are any stated documentation you can refer to. Best wishes on the migration!
Subject: Try Binary Tree
While they don’t have a specific one listed for Thunderbird on their website, they may still have something that will work. We’ve used them for other migrations and their tools are very good. www.binarytree.com
Subject: Possible solution
How many mailboxes do you have to migrate ? You could setup POP/IMAP (depending on how your Thunderbird clients access their mail)on the new notes clients to pull the existing email into the lotus notes mail database.
Subject: POP/IMAP
If the mail was left on whatever server you were using to pull into the Thunderbird client from, then this may be the most straight forward free solution.