messages from an old inbox to a new one

[scroce]

due to tons of SPAM getting unmanageable, I had a user who requested a brand new mailbox. Our Domino admin configured a new mailbox and then sent me a new id file, and I set up the user with a brand new account.

The only thing missing now, is that I want to "import" - if that's the correct term - all of his old messages from his old account/mailbox into the his new one.

How do I do this? Is this done on the server side or the client side? I was fooling around with swapping out his old names.nsf file or cache.dsk files, with little success.

Any help is much appreciated.

thank you.

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[domino888]

select mails.
do either:
1) Copy ; paste
2) File->export; File->Import



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[scroce]

when you do a file import, where does it dump the messages? i've tried it several times now - the export went ok - but when I try to import the file into another user's inbox, it looks like it does the import, but I can't seem to find the files anywhere. Seek not outside yourself; heaven is within.

 

[woonjas]

I'd stick with the copy paste solution Woonjas
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[drumdip]

Copy & Paste is the best way. It is a great function. Create a folder in the new mail file...go to the old and edit-select all, copy...and then paste into the new file under the new folder. I have done this many times. If the old file is so large that it will not handle all at once...copy&paste in portions.

 

[scroce]

What I ended up doing is opening up the old mailbox by trial and error hunting on our main domino server. (no small feat - as I am not a notes admin) Then once I found it, I went to the desktop icon, did a right click, then went to database>properties>new copy - and just let it run over my lunch hour. What this did was make a copy of the entire database on my user's local machine b/c they delete unused mailboxed after 5 days. Now the user can just copy/paste whatever e-mails he wants, or just refer to the db whenenver he needs to from the desktop.

Which still leaves the mysterious question, What's the file import/export option supposed to be used for.

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