Migrating Archived Messages

The Migration Wizard cannot migrate archived messages. They must be moved out of archives to the postoffice to be migrated. If you have many users with large archives, postoffice performance can suffer. There are several options for migrating archived messages.

• Inform users they need to move archived messages to the postoffice if they want to migrate them. This option requires the least amount of work for the administrator and retains all the data. However, users could move all messages from their archives and overburden the postoffice, which increases migration time and impacts performance. The administrator should ensure there is sufficient space on the share hosting the cc:Mail postoffice to incorporate all the data.
• Inform users that you will be migrating only recent messages. They can move these messages to the postoffice for migration. This saves the postoffice from being flooded with outdated archived mail. Users can forward valuable old mail to themselves to get a recent time stamp and have the messages migrated.
• Allow users to migrate archived mail after their mailbox is migrated. Users can retain all the information that is valuable to them without impacting the performance of the postoffice or the migration. This option requires extra work on the part of the administrator and the users.

   To migrate archived messages after mailboxes are migrated

1. The administrator sets up Lotus cc:Mobile for Windows on a computer on the network.
2. The user creates a new mobile postoffice on that computer.
3. The user maps a drive to a server where the archive files are located.
4. The user moves archived messages into the mailbox of the mobile client.
5. The user or the administrator runs the Migration Wizard and creates migration files for the administrator to import and moves them to a safe place. The user should extract only the e-mail and not select the option to create a mailbox.
6. The user deletes the local postoffice to prepare the computer for the next user.