On 16 Mar 2015, at 03:04, John Allen <j...@klam.ca> wrote: > Retirement - Mine. > > I have finally persuaded my family that it would be a good idea to give up on > the family server. > > I have two, probably minor, problems > informing senders of recipients address change. > redirect to recipients new address. > how to transfer existing imap folders to new service - probably gmail. > Not all existing user want to to continue receiving email. > > 1. can probably be achieved with a relocation map, but I am not sure how to > combine it wit 2 and possibly 3.
We have used imapsync quite succesfully in the past for #3; http://imapsync.lamiral.info/ <http://imapsync.lamiral.info/> As for #1 and #2; we usually do that by having the users notify the people they want to receive mail from, giving them a grace period in which their mail still works and gets forwarded, and then shutting it down after a while. The notification can happen via a method of their choice, whether it's them sending out an email, posting something on Facebook for their friends to (hopefully) see, and so on. I've never felt the relocation maps to be particularly useful in this. The percentage of people that read AND understand the bounce message is so low that it approaches zero, most of the time, so making it the user's 'manual' responsibility generally works best. If you want to shut down the machine before this grace period is past, you could move the domain to an external service, pay them for a year, and shut it down after that? Mvg, Joni
