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I’ll update this post as progress is made on the migration. Newest updates will be at the top of this page. If you notice that something doesn’t appear quite right with your email be sure to let our support team know via the Support Portal or by calling (08) 9322 3055 during office hours.

3:21AM – The migration is as good as completed, with the final two mailboxes transferring and all other services operational. 

1:51AM – I spoke too soon… make it three finished and the fourth underway.

1:46AM - Two of the seven IMAP accounts have been transferred so far and we’re onto the third. Mail services have been operating for almost two hours without any issues on the new mail server. In fact, initial (and very rough) calculations show a speed increase of almost 25x, which has me quite satisfied.

Unless you own one of the remaining five mailboxes then as far as you’re concerned everything is done. If you do own one of these five outstanding accounts then you’re mail is working fine, but a few message might be missing on the new server, until I finish this migration and it’s a mirrored copy of your old set up.

12:01AM – Then it struck on me… we don’t need to use the --delete2 flag for these mailboxes that use IMAP! I can change the DNS now and leave those seven mailboxes syncing over the next few hours.

11:03PM – The migration is going as well as planned. The migration script has moved over 250 mailboxes, without issue. We’re waiting for the final seven mailboxes to transfer, though these are the largest of all our customer mailboxes. When these last few are done we can change the DNS and let the mail flow again. We’re definitely on track for our 3:00AM deadline.

9:39PM - Our email migration has commenced. Mail delivery has been suspended and mail is spooling on our IronPort.