Transferring emails into Exchange

[theomen]

I've just setup an Exchange server at home, and would like to put all of my existing emails into the one folder (so all the emails I received via POP3 that are currently sitting in Outlooks data files, I would like to put into my new exchange mailbox).

Is there an easy way to do this?

Also, how do I setup a "catchall" alias in Exchange, so that any email received to and email address that doesn't exist gets forwarded onto me?

Any help appreciated.

Damian

 

[markdmac]

What version of Outlook are the PST files from? If they were originally create in a version BEFORE Outlook 2003 then you can use ExMerge to import them. You will need to do the imports one at a time since the PST file names need to be the same as your user id.

Download Exmerge here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...familyid=429163EC-DCDF-47DC-96DA-1C12D67327D5

The ExMerge utility does not support Unicode .pst files. If you export data from Outlook 2003, the default .pst format is Unicode. To work around this issue, create an ANSI .pst file. This is a .pst file that is compatible with Outlook 97 and with Outlook 2003. To do this, follow these steps:

1. In Outlook 2003, click New on the File menu, and then click Outlook Data File.
2. In the New Outlook Data File dialog box, click Outlook 97-2002 Personal Folders File (.pst), and then click OK
3. In the Create or Open Outlook Data File dialog box, choose a location in the Save In box, and then type a name for the file, such as Exmerge.pst. The Save as type setting will be Personal Folders Files (*.pst) . Click OK.
4. In the Create Microsoft Personal Folders dialog box, you can modify the Name line with a display name that is unique, such as "Exmerge Data" without the quotation marks. This is how the .pst file will appear when you view it in the Folder List in Outlook. Click OK . Keep the defaults settings for the other settings.
5. The new file will appear in the Folder List in Outlook. Right-click this file, and then click Close folder name. folder name is the display name that you set in step 4.
6. On the File menu, click Import and Export.
7. In the Import and Export Wizard, click Export to a file, and then click Next .
8. On the Export to a file page, click Personal Folder File (.pst), and then click Next.
9. On the Export Personal Folders page, select the folder to export. If you want to export the whole contents of the mailbox, click the user name at the top of the Select the folder to export from tree, and then click Next.
10. On the Export Personal Folders page, use the Browse button to locate and to select your newly created .pst file. Click OK when it is selected, and then click Finish . To view the file contents to make sure that the data was exported correctly, open the file in Outlook. To do this, click Open on the File menu, click Outlook Data File, and then click your file.

I've included the above for your future reference since you already have your PST files. If they are Unicode then what you can do is just open them in Outlook and drag the mails to your server Inbox. Then you can close the PST file. ExMerge is a lot easier if your files are ANSI.


Here is how to create the Catchall Account:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;324021

I hope you find this post helpful.

Regards,

Mark

 

[theomen]

Excellent, thanks for the response Mark, I'll try this out shortly.

 

[xmsre]

324021... Didn't Scott Landry write that? Anywho, there are a lot of caveats to using event sinks like this. In VBS, performance doesn't scale well. Another issue is that MAPI messages won't fire the sink unless you force a conversion to MIME. That process involves creating a second virtual server and routing everything from the first through the second - yuck.