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Jaruzel writes:
"I have an on-premises Microsoft Exchange system that hosts my families personal email, which has gone through several upgrades over the years. However Exchange 2013 is now too bloated for my needs, and I find myself wanting to migrate my email services to a cloud provider.
The kicker is that although I only have about 5 live accounts, I have over 200 email aliases attached to those accounts. Most of the cloud providers out there do not support this configuration, or charge per 'address' which makes the cost prohibitive for personal email.
Do any SoylentNewsers know of, or can advise the best way to migrate this lot out of my garage without losing all my aliases or having to pay through the nose?"
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If tin whistles are made of tin, what are foghorns made of?
(Score: 4, Insightful) by isostatic on Thursday March 20 2014, @11:03PM
Too late. He's using exchange rather than a more normal solution. I remember when soylentnews was full of people who couldn't decide between exim and postfix. Exchange? Windows?!
He also seems to have multiple families.
(Score: 2) by Jaruzel on Thursday March 20 2014, @11:18PM
Guilty. :) It all started as 'I'll install Exchange 2000 as I need to understand how it works for my job' ... and then 12 years later, I'm stuck with an Exchange 2010 monster that needs feeding on a regular basis just to keep it flowing my mail and calendars.
I'm 1000% sure that MS have screwed up the last two versions of Exchange so badly as a backdoor way to make people migrate to Office 365.
"My family's ... " - Happy now ? :)
This is my opinion, there are many others, but this one is mine.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 20 2014, @11:44PM
Postfix - configure once - then it gets out of your way.
(Score: 1) by sce7mjm on Friday March 21 2014, @08:46AM
I would agree here. Outlook 2013 has had problems with IMAP for over a year and people are still reporting it. 2010 worked fine. 2013 seems to work well with Exchange but the IMAP syncing issues should just not be happening.
This has reared it's ugly head when a client of mine dragged a bunch of folders from a pop3 account and dropped them under the IMAP account. Outlook 2013 complained it couldn't do that. "Fine nothings moved then" she thought, how wrong can you be, the folder tree is still there, but every folder is empty. I'm hoping the stored mails are still lodged in the pst file (scanpst.exe might help).
Microsoft seem to be in denial about this issue and seemed to have pushed some updates in november but some people still seem to be effected. The response seems to be use Office 365. But that doesn't get the e-mails back does it.
I use claws mail and can copy e-mails between pop and imap, willy nilly without issue. The e-mails are stored in a directory tree and can search them and look in them with a text editor.
Hopefully I can help my client out here but I'm not looking forward to the backup conversation.