[vox-tech] Change mail host, lose e-mails?

[Rod Roark]

Regardless of forwarding, it seems to me there will inevitably
be a period of time when some of a given user's unread mail=20
will be on one server and some of it on another.  Even some=20
mail that the user has read will need to be preserved.

So either already-received mail needs to be copied over (this
is not the same as forwarding), or the user needs the ability=20
(briefly, not for weeks) to connect to both servers.  This
can be automated with most mail clients -- someone has to do
it, but it's just an administration task like many others.

-- Rod
   http://www.sunsetsystems.com/

On Friday 31 May 2002 06:43 pm, Mark K. Kim wrote:
> Thank you Rod and Mike.
>
> I can certainly recommend that we keep the current mail service running
> for the next month or two after switching over.  But getting everyone t=
o
> keep checking their new and old mails for weeks is going to be a proble=
m.
>
> We do have the ability to forward the mails on our current mail service=
,
> but forwarding mails using IP addresses isn't going to work.  Is there
> another way to forward the e-mails?  (I can, of course, forward mails t=
o
> my alternate e-mail addresses, but not everyone here has alternate e-ma=
il
> addresses.  And of course the ones with only company e-mail address are
> the ones that are least savvy with computers and will forget to check
> both e-mail accounts... :P)
>
> -Mark