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Title: Outlook folder copy to SME
Post by: Damian on January 15, 2005, 10:07:27 AM

When migrating outlook users to SME, what have people been doing to recreate the nested folder structures in users PST files ?
I've been adding an SME IMAP account to outlook, then manually creating the same folder structure under IMAP that exists on the client, then per folder, manually copying the contents to SME. I've found that dropping top level folders doesn't seem to work.

This was OK but now I have 15 machines to do !!!

Any ideas ?

Damian

Title: Outlook folder copy to SME
Post by: Brave Dave on January 17, 2005, 10:53:04 AM

Can't you just copy the .pst to the server drive ?

I usually create an ibay and keep the pst files there

Title: Outlook folder copy to SME
Post by: Damian on January 17, 2005, 11:26:17 AM

Hi David,

You mean all legacy email is available in the PST file and all new emails are stored under IMAP access ?

Hmmm... I'll have a think about that. Thanks  :-)

Damian

Title: Outlook folder copy to SME
Post by: mbachmann on January 18, 2005, 11:59:12 AM

Yes, the *.pst is the only file Outlook needs. There is also a *.wab file, which is the adress book.

Title: Outlook folder copy to SME
Post by: Damian on January 18, 2005, 12:04:11 PM

OK, I had a think about it.

This is fine if no-one needs access to legacy email via webmail. This may be the case - I don't know yet.

I knew about the PST/WAB breakdown but ideally would like to clean out the PST stuff if we're using IMAP.

Thanks for the idea.

Damian

Title: Outlook folder copy to SME
Post by: gippsweb on January 21, 2005, 01:33:15 AM

But even if you use imap, doesn't Outlook still create the *.pst file for times when the server may be offline...

Title: Outlook folder copy to SME
Post by: Damian on January 21, 2005, 01:40:37 AM

I've always asked users to dump Outlook and use Mozilla so I couldn't say. Anyone else ?

Damian

Title: Outlook folder copy to SME
Post by: mrjhb3 on January 21, 2005, 05:05:35 AM

Quote from: "gippsweb"

But even if you use imap, doesn't Outlook still create the *.pst file for times when the server may be offline...

I'm using outlook with IMAP and yes, it sure does create a pst file.

JB