You can get this page and the related links in PDF-format for printing! To use the links on this page, use the PDF-file, or point your browser to http://www.uic.edu/depts/adn/seminars/migrate/handout.html .
Wait until you receive email notification from ACCC that your mailserver account has been created and it is time to migrate! In the meantime, make sure you have a valid NetID, and install the current NS-Kit on your personal computer.
If you are currently using Eudora to retrieve your email from CMS, you need to change your POP-server configuration in Eudora, but ONLY AFTER you have been notified via email to do so. See the VMOmega pages. You will get an account on the new mailserver (mailserv.uic.edu), which will serve only as your mail-account (no telnet connections are possible!). To change your password for it, use our web-password-changer.
In CMS, type NAM2NICK (WIN (or use the options
(MAC or (PINE ) to convert your NAMES file to Eudora
(pine) format. Transfer the resulting file CMSNAMES TXT
A to the Nickname directory in your Eudora directory
via ftp, using ASCII mode.
For Mac, set the file's creator type to Simpletext and put it inside the Nicknames folder inside the Eudora folder inside the System folder.
For pine, name it .addressbook and put it in your home-directory. If you already have such a file, rename it first (before transferring the new one in), then copy its contents into the new one with a text editor.
In CMS, first enter RDRLIST and receive all mails you want to
keep via PF9. Then type these commands (left) to achieve the following
(right):
MAILBOOK |
This lists all notebooks you have accessed. You can thus easily run the same command on each of them by typing it into the prefix area of the first file, then hitting TAB and typing = signs into the prefix area of all the other ones. |
BOOK2BOX / (PC DEBUG |
Type this into the prefix area, or use (MAC or
(UNIX instead of (PC.This creates a binary file by the same name and filetype MBX (MBXM, MBXU) at mode A. It also creates a text version with filetype DEBUG for you to check completeness of the conversion. |
PF3, then FILEL |
Quits MAILBOOK and lists all the converted mailboxes at mode A. Check them, then erase the DEBUG versions. |
Note: your minidisk may be too full for all of these, or you
may exceed your quota on SFS. In that case, send an email to consult@uic.edu
asking for more space on your A disk or a higher file quota. You could
also use WORKSPACE 5 to temporarily access a larger A disk, convert
all NOTEBOOKs, and send them to yourself via the SENDFILE command.
Then you could later receive whatever fits into your regular A disk,
ftp it over to your PC/MAC, and delete it.
Now you need to use the FTP program from the NS-Kit to connect to UICVM and get those converted mailboxes. Before doing so, shut down Eudora! When executing WS-FTP, you first need to select a profile. Choose UICVM from the drop-down menu at the top. Type your CMS userID into the user field and click OK. You will be prompted for your password. Then you should be connected to your A minidisk (or your main directory if you use SFS) - shown at the right.
Before transferring any files, you need to open the correct local folder (shown at the left). It will be something like C:\Program Files\NSKit\Eudora. To do so, simply double-click the folder-names in the top left window. If you need to move up a level at any time, double-click the two dots at the top of that window. You may need to use the scrollbar in that little window to see the name of the directory you want to open.
Make a new local directory by clicking on the MkDir button at the left. Call it CMSmail.fol. This is where you will put all your CMS mailboxes, so you need to double-click it to enter it.
Make sure that the radio button for binary transfer mode is selected (bottom center of the FTP window). Now select all the mbx files in the bottom right window. You can select multiple files by holding down Shift or Control while clicking. When you have selected all mbx files (you can scroll to see more), click the arrow pointing to the left in the center of the window. This will transfer all these files to your local drive.
If you also want to transfer a converted NAMES file (recall that the converted one is named CMSNAMES TXT), you first need to switch to ASCII mode and open the local Nickname directory (on the left). When the process is complete, click the Exit button at bottom right.
After you have transferred all the mailboxes, you need to configure Eudora. If you have not previously used and configured it, use the CSO Eudora documentation for the general setup. Here just some new steps: in Eudora, click the Tools menu and choose Options. In the category Getting Started, set both incoming mail server and SMTP (=outgoing mail) server to mailserv.uic.edu (you should already have configured the other three options according to the documentation for the NS-Kit). Now select the category Incoming Mail and click on IMAP. Enter mail/ as the IMAP mailbox location prefix (the forward slash is important!). If you are on campus, select Full message... (and perhaps set a limit for attachment size), but if you dial up, you should choose Minimal Headers only for faster mailbox-updates. Scroll down to the Mailboxes category and check the box for Server Status. You need this so you can see which messages are marked for deletion. To easily remove (="purge") them (clean up the mailbox), we will customize our toolbar:
Right-click on the toolbar (MAC users, click and hold) and choose Customize. In the list on the left, select Message. A list of buttons appears. One of them is labeled Purge. Drag it onto your toolbar. You can now close the dialogue. Click this button whenever you wish to clean out deleted messages in an open server-side mailbox (local deletion still happens by moving messages into the trash).
With IMAP, Eudora knows two kinds of mailboxes: local mail on your PC/MAC (accessible only on this machine), and server mail. The server mailboxes are under the word <Dominant>. Create a new mailbox on the server by right-clicking on the word <Dominant> in the mailbox-list and choosing New. Name it Outbox or some such thing (pine calls this sent-mail).
Finally, make a filter to move all outgoing mail to the server, so you can see it from other machines. Open the Tools menu and choose Filters. Click the New button. Check only the box for Outgoing. Select From: in the Header drop-down menu. Type uic into the right field below that. Now select the first Action drop-down menu and choose Transfer to. It will place a button labeled In to the right. Click on it and choose <Dominant>, Outbox. Then make the second action, Skip Rest. This avoids application of any other filters to this message while sending (you might make more filters later). Close the filter dialogue by clicking its close box at top right, and say yes when prompted. This filter will move all your outgoing messages to the server, so you can still see them from any machine. If you do make filters for your incoming mail, and wish to have them applied to your outgoing mail as well, you could change this filter to transfer your outgoing messages to the Inbox instead, so they would still get filtered when you check mail.
Note that you can move single or multiple messages between any of your mailboxes. You can not, however, move a whole mailbox from the server to the PC/MAC or vice versa. Older mail (such as most of your CMS mail) should be stored on your own machine anyway, so it doesn't take up server space.