Hello, Our company is pretty new to the Microsoft Exchange environment, we're looking to find the best solution for linking our existing IMAP email accounts to specified exchange accounts. I have an idea on how to migrate the accounts, I just need some guidance as to how they can send/receive emails with a specified IMAP account in exchange. Would I need 3rd party software to do this? Thanks in advance.

Hello,I would like you check the following KB'sconnect an external imap mailbox to my exchange mailboxhttp://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exchangesvrtransport/thread/662d8e6f-ab91-461b-858f-731a01344a5fhttp://slipstick.com/exs/popconnect.aspArun Kumar | MCSE - 2K3 + Messaging | ITIL-F V3

Hi, I have an idea on how to migrate the accounts ------------Whats your solution now? Im not sure what do you want Now you have migrated the mail data? Or your client still connect the mail provider via IMAP4? Whats your mail client? Is that Outlook? How to configure Outlook to receive e-mail messages from an IMAP server http://support.microsoft.com/kb/286197 Thanks, Elvis

Thank you for the replies, I will try your suggestions within the hour and report back.

After going through all the suggestions they do not seem to be exactly what i'm looking for. I'll try to explain my situation a little better.Our company has setup a domain which is not yet implemented. The exchange accounts are currently "bob@test.local", we would like the bob@test.local exchange account to be linked with his current IMAP email account being used (before the domain was created) which is bob@test.com. This way the emails that are sent to/from "bob@test.com" end up in his exchange account.Thank you in advance.

Any suggestions?

Hi Colangelo, If you want link the Exchange accounts to corresponding IMAP4 account, i.e. send a email via your Exchange account bob@test.local. In the recipient side, the mail from is your IMAP4 account address. This is impossible. The final goal is migrate the mailboxes to your Exchange system, right? I suggest you using a third party connector (pop3 or imap4 connector) to achieve this. Search Internet, you could find lots of software. Thanks, Elvis

Hi Elvis,It is not possible, to use a third party imap connector as you mentioned for receiving mail, and use address rewrite agent when you send messages to change test.local back to test.com?Regards,Zoltnhttp://www.clamagent.org - Free Antivirus for Exchange http://www.it-pro.hu http://emaildetektiv.hu

Hi Zoltn,Yep, we could use address rewrite or set test.com as primary smtp address to send mail, but the mails can be treated as junk in recipient side. So I don't think it's a good idea...Thanks,Elvis

Hi Elvis,I'm not sure what you thinking about "mails can be treted as junk". If I'm correct you are talking about the missing Reverse DNS entry. I think thay can create the missing entry or even thay can use the ISP's SMTP as smarthost for sending messages.Regards,Zoltnhttp://www.clamagent.org - Free Antivirus for Exchange http://www.it-pro.hu http://emaildetektiv.hu