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Migrating mailbox and mail folders from VMS to unix


To change the mailbox from OpenVMS to unix environment:

  1. You need an username on the unix systems.
    If you already have one, skip to step 3.

  2. If you don't have one, you can require it, using the apposite AFS/Unix Account Request form and wait for the notify of the username creation by the Computing Service staff.

  3. Use the apposite Mailbox registration form to set your mailbox on the the unix environment (choosing uxcalc in the Node text box).

  4. Wait for the mailbox update.
    Verify that the mailbox has been changed to uxcalc, using the command getmboxinfo on the Computing Service systems.

  5. Set the automatic forwarding of the OpenVMS local mail: where """ are three quote characters.

  6. You can refer to the Computing Service Documentation web page to configure the mail user agent (netscape, outlook express) to manage your mails from lnf.infn.it domain.

  7. You can also access to your mails from outside lnf domain using https://webmail.lnf.infn.it/.

After the mailbox change, you can wish to collect and store all your OpenVMS mail folders on the unix environment too. It's possible to migrate mail folders from OpenVMS to unix preserving the folder structure.

To do this you need the following requirement:

If all the requirements are satisfied, you can execute the following steps:
  1. Log in the OpenVMS machine
  2. Execute the  pine  command
  3. Press  s  and then c  to go into the Config Setup
  4. Move the cursor down to highlight  folder-collections
  5. Press  a  to add a folder collection
  6. Press  []  "Square braket opened and closed" and then <return>
  7. Press  a  again to add another folder collection
  8. Press  {imap.lnf.infn.it}mail/[]  and then <return>
  9. Move the cursor down to highlight  enable-aggregate-command-set
  10. Press  x  to set that feature (X must appear between the square brakets)
  11. Move the cursor down to highlight  save-will-not-delete
  12. Press  x  to set that feature (X must appear between the square brakets)
  13. Press  e  to exit  setup
  14. Press  q  to quit  pine
  15. Press  y  to confirm  quit
You can now execute  pine  again that could manage both local mail folders (OpenVMS environment) and remote mail folders (unix environment).
  1. Press  l  to see the folder list
  2. move the cursor down to select  the text string  [ Select Here to See Expanded List ]  below   folder-collection <[]> (Local  and press  <return>
  3. Now for each local folder you must:
  4. At the end press  q  to quit  pine
  5. Press  y  to confirm  quit
After this steps you will find a copy of all the OpenVMS mail folders in the unix environment, and you will access them with pine on the unix environment or with an internet browser (like Netscape Messenger) via imap protocol.


Last Update: Net.Support@lnf.infn.it, 8-Mar-2001