Migrating from Axigen

 - This article is a Work in Progress, and may be unfinished or missing sections.

Introduction

The purpose of this article is to document my experience in migrating a <500 user Axigen mail server setup to Zimbra. I'm not done yet, so anybody who stumbles across this article before it is linked into the Migration category should be very careful with anything you read here. It may or may not be beneficial or useful.

The Setup

The source Axigen mail server is a single Centos 5.8 server. The destination Zimbra setup will be three servers: one mailbox server and two LDAP/MTA/proxy servers. They will all run on CentOS 6 and be installed according to other guides in this wiki.

Migration Strategy

Preliminary tests indicate that using imapsync for mail migration is a viable strategy. Unfortunately, I have not discovered a good method of migrating calendar entries; unless I find something easy between now and deployment I am not going to plan to migrate calendars. Our calendar user population is low enough that we can deal with each on a case-by-case basis.