MAIL AND DIRECTORY MIGRATION

Copying personal address book information to the Notes Personal Address Book
To update a user's Notes Personal Address Book with information migrated from the old mail system, the upgrade wizards copy personal address book information stored on the old mail client or in temporary Public Address Books sent to users in an upgrade message. The following table shows the sources the upgrade wizards use to obtain address book information:
Source of migrated informationcc:MailMicrosoft MailMicrosoft Exchange Outlook clientMicrosoft Exchange client
Server (temporary PAB sent in upgrade message)Private mailing listsPersonal Address BookContacts--
Client workstationPrivate addresses (PRIVDIR.INI)--Personal Address BookPersonal Address Book

Migrating personal address books during Express or Custom upgrades

During an Express upgrade, the upgrade wizards migrate all the personal address book information that is available for a user (that is, information from both the Server and Client rows of the preceding table).

During a Custom upgrade, users can choose whether they want to migrate personal address book information. Users of cc:Mail 2.x or cc:Mail 6.x can independently migrate their private addresses and private mailing lists. cc:Mail 8.x users can only migrate private mailing lists.

The upgrade wizard for Microsoft Mail provides the option to migrate Personal Address Books.

The upgrade wizard for Microsoft Exchange provides a single option for migrating Contacts and Personal Address Books together. Although Outlook client users may maintain separate Contacts and Personal Address Books files, users cannot migrate these items separately.

Migrating information obtained from the mail server

When migrating information from the old mail server (refer to the preceding table) the upgrade wizards search the user's Notes Inbox for an upgrade message. After locating a message, the wizards detach the temporary PAB from it, and copy the information in the temporary PAB to the PAB on the user's workstation (NAMES.NSF). The original upgrade message remains in the Inbox, and may be deleted after the user verifies that the information has been migrated successfully.

Migrating information directly from the workstation

To migrate information from a cc:Mail client workstation, the upgrade wizard searches the cc:Mail user directory on the workstation to locate the PRIVDIR.INI file. Similarly, the upgrade wizard for Microsoft Exchange searches the workstation for the Exchange Personal Address Book (PAB file) specified in the user's MAPI profile. After locating the files, the wizards copy the address book information in them to the Notes PAB.

The e-mail addresses listed in Contact documents in the Notes PAB may conform to any of several mail system types. Lotus Notes assigns the mail system type "Internet Mail" to the addresses that the upgrade wizard migrates from other mail systems. In converting e-mail addresses migrated from cc:Mail, the migration tool applies the gateway mapping information contained in the upgrade notification message.

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