MAIL AND DIRECTORY MIGRATION

Estimating the size of a converted mailbox
As you plan your migration from cc:Mail to Lotus Notes, you need to know the amount of disk space needed to convert cc:Mail post offices to Notes mail databases. There is no formula for calculating exactly how much disk space a mailbox will require after it is converted to a Notes mail file. However, you can estimate the size of a converted mailbox by running a test migration and comparing the size of a cc:Mail mailbox with the size of the resulting Notes mail file. cc:Mail provides the following commands for measuring the size of mail boxes in a post office:

For a DB6 office

At the command prompt, enter the following command:

chkstat /N po_name /P po_password /D po_path /msgs/all >output.txt

where po_name is the name of the post office; po_password is the post office password; po_path is the network path to the directory where the post office is located; and output.txt is the name of the file where you want the report saved.

The report indicates the total number of bytes for each mailbox in the post office.

For a DB8 post office

At the command prompt, enter the following command:

msgmgr /N po_name /P po_password /D po_path /U "username"

where po_name is the name of the post office; po_password is the post office password; po_path is the network path to the directory where the post office is located; and username is the name of the user whose mailbox you are measuring.

The command displays the total size in kilobytes for the specified mailbox. It does not generate a report.

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