[CentOS] MS Exchange to MBOX

[Ross S. W. Walker]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org 
> [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Joshua Gimer
> Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 3:20 PM
> To: CentOS mailing list
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] MS Exchange to MBOX
> 
> We have roughly 4000 accounts that need to be migrated.
> 
> Josh
> On Aug 9, 2007, at 1:09 PM, Ross S. W. Walker wrote:
> 
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: centos-bounces at centos.org
> >> [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Joshua Gimer
> >> Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 2:58 PM
> >> To: CentOS mailing list; General Red Hat Linux discussion
> >> list; misc at openbsd.org; sage-members at sage.org
> >> Subject: [CentOS] MS Exchange to MBOX
> >>
> >> We are planning on moving a large amount of Exchange mailboxes to
> >> UNIX mbox format.
> >>
> >> My question is, does anyone know of any projects out there 
> or of any
> >> tools that can assist in this conversion?
> >
> > I've never liked mbox, but if that's what you want then I believe
> > regular old 'fetchmail' can do it.
> >
> > Maildir is a more flexible mailbox format IMHO.

Write a script that will query Active Directory LDAP, generating a
~/.fetchmailrc file for each user.

Get your new box into the AD with samba and have samba manage the
keytab file.

You can then have fetchmail run in daemon mode across all user accounts
using Kerberos authentication as the host principal, on Exchange give
the Linux box host principal full rights to each mailbox.

-Ross

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