As part of the constant changes in our lives,ie: graduation, changing schools, work, account closing, etc., some users will want to have his/her DCS mail moved to a new server elsewhere. This document will describe the steps needed to completely extract a user's current email from CS Central Mail Server to a non CS IMAP mail server.
Due to a limitation with many IMAP Server, make sure that you are NOT currently mixing email and folders. If you have mixed email and folder in a folder, make sure that your new IMAP server can handle mixed email and folder, otherwise you will get an error like: "bCREATE NO Mailbox doesn't allow inferior mailboxes".
If you are moving from a mixed email and folder to a server that does NOT support this feature, you will need to rearrange all your mail folders so that there are no mix of folders and email in your folder structure.
| Example of Mix Email and Folders (superior mailbox mode)
Work Folder
mail-message1
mail-message2
TODO Folder
todo-message1
todo-message2
...
todo-message-z
Personal Folder
personal-message1
personal-message2
...
personal-message-z
| Example of Non Mixed Email and Folders (inferior mailbox mode)
WORK Folder
TODO Folder
todo-message1
todo-message2
...
todo-message-z
Personal Folder
personal-message1
personal-message2
...
personal-message-z
|
Extraction Process.
To start the extraction process go to the extraction website http://dragon.rutgers.edu/cgi-bin/depart.pl
The page will ask you for your current CS Mail account username and password, the name of your new mail server (example: lecture123.com) and the name of the folder or directory to store the extracted mail into, (Example: Mail), the username and password of the new mail account on the new server. Let's get started:
Step 1: Enter your current mail server username and password
Step 2: Enter the name of your new IMAP mail server
Step 3: Select folder to store your extracted mail to,
Step 4: Enter your new mail server username and password and
Step 5: click the Go button to start the mail extraction process.
Pressing the Go! button will queue your extraction request into
the system and it will start the extraction process immediately.
Depending on the size of your current mail files, this process may
take a few seconds to a few minutes. At the completion of the
migration process, you will received an email message on the destination server describing the status of the extraction.
Once you are sure that all your old mail have been moved to
the new server, you should notify the System Administrator of the CS server to close and delete your
old mail account.
If you have questions or need helps, please email: help@cs.rutgers.edu