Step 5: Move Messages from Novell to IMAP Server
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Step 4: Move Mail from Local Step 5: Mail Filtering Rules Corporate Folders to IMAP Information & Unfortunately, you will have to manually Computing In order to see all your messages from recreate your mail filtering rules. From Services. home you will need to move your folders the Thunderbird Tools menu, select on to the IMAP server. Message Filters, then click New This is an excellent opportunity to decide In Thunderbird you name each filter whether you can delete old messages, or independently. Specify a name for the even old message folders. filter in the top field. In the middle area, Moving to Thunderbird on Managed XP specify the characteristics of the message To move a folder onto the IMAP server to be filtered, you can click the plus simply select it, then drag it across. button to define a combination of IMAP characteristics. To create a folder structure on the IMAP Three years ago the IMAP email service was introduced to students, and proved to be server, first create a folder by selecting In the lower area specify the action to be convenient and reliable. The IMAP service provides significant advantages, most the IMAP Inbox, then selecting New and taken if all or any of the characteristics notably in allowing you to read all your email, including old emails, from home. then Folder from the File menu. are met. Click OK, then click New for each additional filter. Since then, around 40% of staff have moved to this service, and over the next few months CiCS would like the remaining staff to also move to this service. Currently, your email messages are stored on your Novell server. New messages can be read from home using the POP3 protocol, but messages that are in folders cannot be read from home. Once you move to the IMAP server, you will be able to read all of your email messages from home, using most email clients. Dial-up users can ‘pop’ mail from the IMAP server. Deadline All CiCS staff will have their mail delivered via the IMAP server during March and April. This will be done in batches and you will be contacted by email when your transfer is You can the drag local folders into this about to take place. IMAP folder to create a hierarchy. More Information In addition, CiCS will be moving to Mozilla Thunderbird as the new default mailer. Since we are already changing our email delivery, it is probably the most convenient A Thunderbird document will shortly be time to change our email client. available from http://www.shef.ac.uk/cics/support/docs This document tells you how to convert message held in Pegasus to the Thunderbird format, then to configure Thunderbird for IMAP. This is also an excellent opportunity for most of us to clear out the unnecessary obsolete messages that we have accumulated. Action To configure Thunderbird to receive email from the IMAP server please follow the following steps. Step 1: Wait until your mail is Step 2: Install Thunderbird Step 3: Convert your Pegasus Your Pegasus address books and lists being delivered to IMAP Components to Thunderbird have been converted into LDIF files. Each Load the Applications menu. address book will be a file, but all CiCS will inform you when your mail In Pegasus Mail you may have a folder distribution lists will be in one file, destination has changed. The mail server From the Applications menu select structure, distribution lists, and address ‘Pegasus Lists.ldif’. checks its destination at 14 and 44 Thunderbird Mailer to install Thunderbird books. A simple script will create copies minutes past the hour, once the nearest onto your U: drive. of these for Thunderbird, but will leave To import these into Thunderbird, first one has past, send an email to yourself to the original Pegasus versions intact. select Import from the Tools menu. In the see whether it arrives on your Novell dialog that appears, select Address Books, server. If you are confident that it is not From the Windows XP Start menu, select and click Next. In the next screen, select coming to Novell, then you can safely Run. In the dialog box type in the following the Text file option and click Next. The file begin the move to IMAP. command exactly: open window will appear, Click OK and a Command window will open and run a simple script. When it has finished, close, then restart Navigate to your U: drive and you will see Thunderbird and you will see all your the LDIF files. Select one and click Open, Pegasus Mail folders. then Finish. Repeat the whole process for each LDIF file. More detailed information is available in the Thunderbird document. A Thunderbird icon will appear on the Programs menu, so that you do not have to load the Applications menu to use Thunderbird in future. .