MAIL AND DIRECTORY MIGRATION

Synchronizing directories when migrating from a downstream post office
A post office that receives its directory updates from a hub post office is considered to be downstream from the hub post office. In some cc:Mail Automatic Directory Exchange (ADE) topologies, migrating users from a downstream post office can result in discrepancies between the directory on this post office and the directory on the hub post office.

For example, if the cc:Mail MTA and the cc:Mail hub post office have a broadcaster-to-broadcaster relationship, and the hub post office is in a superior relationship with subordinate downstream post offices, the subordinate downstream post office would not be allowed to propagate the users' address changes up to the superior hub post office. As a result, although the users' records in both the Domino Directory and the subordinate post office are updated to reflect the fact that users have been migrated, records in the hub post office still indicate that the users' mail boxes are in the cc:Mail post office.

In this type of topology, if you migrate users from the downstream post office, you also must update the cc:Mail addresses for migrated users at the hub post office. Although the cc:Mail Domino Upgrade Service automatically changes the address of a migrated user to a Notes domain name, this address change is not necessarily propagated to either the hub post office or to its other downstream post offices.

When migrating users from a downstream post office, you can update addresses at the hub post office on an individual basis, using the cc:Mail Administration program.

Alternatively, when using the cc:Mail MTA to connect the two mail systems during migration, you can synchronize the Domino and cc:Mail directories as follows:

1. Before a migration, use the cc:Mail EXPORT program to export a Local user list from the downstream post office.

2. View this list with a text editor and delete names of users you do not want to migrate.

3. Using the Find and Replace feature of the text editor, replace the cc:Mail post office name with the name of the Notes domain.

4. After you migrate all users at the post office, use the cc:Mail IMPORT program to import these names into the hub post office. The changed address entries are propagated throughout the cc:Mail post office network.

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