MAIL AND DIRECTORY MIGRATION

Synchronizing cc:Mail bulletin boards and Notes discussion databases
If you are using the cc:Mail MTA version 2.0 or later, and want to keep information synchronized between cc:Mail Bulletin Boards and a Notes Discussion database, use the Bulletin Board Conversion component of the cc:Mail MTA and clear the option in the cc:Mail Domino Upgrade Service to convert bulletin boards.

For information about how to change the option to convert bulletin boards, see the topic Converting bulletin boards to Notes discussion databases.

When you synchronize bulletin boards between cc:Mail and Lotus Notes through the cc:Mail MTA, you ensure that all cc:Mail bulletin board messages propagated to Lotus Notes are present in the cc:Mail MTA Bulletin Board Exchange database and vice versa.

Perform the following steps to synchronize cc:Mail bulletin boards with Notes discussion databases:

1. Make sure that the propagation lists for the bulletin boards you are synchronizing with the cc:Mail MTA Bulletin Board Exchange discussion database include entries for the domain post office.

2. Make sure that you have configured the propagation type for the bulletin boards in cc:Mail to allow sending and receiving between the cc:Mail connected post office and the cc:Mail MTA server.

3. Make sure that all the bulletin board titles exist as categories in the cc:Mail Bulletin Board Exchange database. On the cc:Mail MTA Domino server, run a directory synchronization (SYNCH command) between cc:Mail and Lotus Notes and apply the ADE update (APPLYADE command) to create the bulletin board categories in the cc:Mail Bulletin Board Exchange database if they are not already present.

4. From the cc:Mail Router responsible for the directly connected post office, run a bulletin board synchronization request EXCH/BS.

After completing these steps, any bulletin board messages that were posted before you enabled bulletin board exchange through the cc:Mail MTA will be present in the cc:Mail Bulletin Board Exchange database.

For detailed information about the procedures and commands discussed in this topic, refer to the Lotus Notes cc:Mail MTA Administrator's Guide.

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