Converting from Exchange 5.5 to Qmail

[nyc_paladin]

I'm trying to convert my company from a microsoft shop to a linux shop. The biggest problem is finding a way to migrate from exchange 5.5 to qmail. Is there an add-on to qmail to convert emails from exchange, or will I have to the users start fresh? Thanks in advance.

[fancypiper]

From http://www.ximian.com/

"Ximian Announces Availability of Ximian Connector for Microsoft Exchange 2000 to Enable Interoperability for Ximian Evolution Users"

You could check it out and see.

[nyc_paladin]

Thanks, I've seen evolution and love it on the desktop, but was looking to find something to convert the exchange private store to qmail mail boxes.

[SuperHornet]

You probably would have to make a chart or a DB of user accounts and aliases, and then make a bash or perl script to automate the recreation of the accounts and setting things up from the Exchange server.

After that you could use fetchmail in a script is a to get the mail from the server, but you would have to enable POP3 access.

[nyc_paladin]

Thanks SuperHornet. The Perl script would make sense, I could just use the POP3 in exchange to move the files over. I'll let you know what I come up with.

[Landruu]

Anyone know of a free program that will connect to Exchange?