MAIL AND DIRECTORY MIGRATION

Specifying the post office for routing mail to Notes
In networks where the cc:Mail MTA connects cc:Mail and Lotus Notes, you can configure cc:Mail Domino Upgrade Service to enable automatic forwarding from a cc:Mail post office to Lotus Notes. Having messages automatically forwarded eliminates the need to migrate additional messages later.

In a cc:Mail post office directory, each user is assigned a location code that describes where their mailbox is in relation to the post office. When the post office receives a message, it checks the location code to determine whether to look for the recipient's mailbox at the current post office, or on another post office. Before migration, a cc:Mail user whose mail file is located on the local post office is assigned the location code uppercase "L."

By default, after migration, this location code is unchanged. As a result, mail sent to a user's old cc:Mail mailbox, continues to be accepted. If you are not using the cc:Mail MTA, you may want to let users continue to receive mail at their old mail boxes for a limited amount of time. Later, you can run cc:Mail Domino Upgrade Service again to move these messages to the user's Notes mail file.

For more information about performing a secondary migration, see the topic Migrating additional cc:Mail messages after registration.

To configure mail forwarding, on the Other Settings pane of the cc:Mail Upgrade Advanced Settings dialog box, select the name of the Notes domain where the user's mail file is located from the list of available remote post offices. The domain must be connected to the cc:Mail post office and MTA, and must already be included as a remote post office entry in the cc:Mail directory. Generally, the Notes domain that serves as the gateway between cc:Mail and Lotus Notes will be the same as the name of the cc:Mail MTA server.

When you specify the post office for routing mail to Lotus Notes, the cc:Mail post office directory retains an entry for each migrated user. However, the cc:Mail Domino Upgrade Service updates information in a user's cc:Mail directory listing, as follows:


After the cc:Mail Domino Upgrade Service changes users' location information, they can no longer use a cc:Mail client to retrieve messages from their cc:Mail mailbox.

cc:Mail user files and messages left after migration

After migration, if the cc:Mail Domino Upgrade Service changes the address and location type for a user's entry in the cc:Mail directory, that user can no longer access his cc:Mail mailbox. However, the cc:Mail user file and mailbox messages remain in the cc:Mail post office. You can restore the cc:Mail client's ability to access the mailbox and other related mail data (private mailing lists, archives, and so forth) by resetting the user's original location information back to an uppercase "L" (local), using the cc:Mail ADMIN or WinAdmin. Resetting the location type also lets you migrate the user again, if necessary.

For the recommended method for removing user data from the cc:Mail post office, see the topic Removing the user files and messages of migrated users from the cc:Mail post office.

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