| LS2004 to Outlook |
 Posted by
Barry Kucher
on Monday, October 27, 2008 at 11:35:03 AM (EST)
Hello,
We are currently using LS2004 and have a user who is complaining that his mail goes very slow. We finally convinced the user to move to Outlook, but have some questions about the move.
This user has about 50 subfolders in the Inbox, and about 4000 emails altogether. Since POP3 is not capable of getting messages from folders other than the Inbox, the move would take an extraordinary amount of time (first suck down emails to Outlook, then move all emails from a subfolder to the Inbox, suck those down into Outlook.. repeat ad nauseum). Is there an easier way to do this?
I had the following idea but I'm not sure if it'd work: We plan to upgrade to Groupware in the near future. Is it possible for now to upgrade only THIS user to the trial version of Groupware and then use the IMAP functionality in the new Groupware to grab all the emails, folders, etc into Outlook, and then within outlook, make the account a POP3 account again without losing any emails? (This way we can install Groupware and then remove it until we are ready to upgrade everybody).
I am open to any suggestions as to how to most efficiently do the move, or how to speed up this user so the move isn't required.
Thanks for reading.
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 Posted by
Peter Crown
on Friday, October 31, 2008 at 1:49:49 PM (EST)
With a 4000 messages I would move to IMAP asap. POP3 will time out and it will be slow because it needs transfer all messages. IMAP can be optimized. Upgrade to the 6.0 may not be faster but it will at least work, with pop3 there is no hope.
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