[Gllug] Talk by Richard Stallman in London, 12 Feb

John Hearns john.hearns at framestore-cfc.com
Sat Jan 26 19:04:58 UTC 2002



Mike Brodbelt wrote:

>
>
> > Granted, anyone silly
> > enough to be stuck in such a situation probably deserves the reaming that
> > they will no doubt get (how does this hold for Nutscrape email users?),
>
> Netscape stores it's email in a widely known and easily accessible
> format. Anyway, anyone forward looking today will be using IMAP, where
> server storage format is a non issue, as you can migrate via the
> protocol.

Well said Mike.
Been there, seen it, done it.
Wrote and tested the Perl script, and migrated 300 users in a Saturday afternoon.

Changed the CNAME for mail in out internal DNS and they were
none the wiser (OK, slight exaggeration (sp?) )







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