Old Mail Account "Retirement" Process: March 15 - April 12 Time-frame
With the exception of a handful of accounts, the lab has transitioned to Google for mail storage. The infrastructure required to maintain old imap storage will be retired later this year.
Before this happens, we are going to provide everyone at the lab who had an IMAP account one last chance to insure anything that did not migrate can be dealt with. Note - most of us made the transition to Gmail last year and have not looked back. In that case, you won't have to take any action at all.
(If you do want to recover some that were left behind, our FAQ is here).
Reasons why a message might not have migrated
- An attachment was too large for Google (the attachment size that Google can accept is around 25MB, as opposed to 35MB for the old system)
- A message was identified as having a virus. If this was false positive, you might want to go back and take another look
Note: We have observed that some users who were using a mail client (e.g. Mac Mail, Thunderbird), continued to send copies of their outgoing message to the old system and not Google. We will provide an FAQ that shows you what to do to move those messages to Google. (each impacted individual will be notified).
After completing the process for the IT Division, we will repeat it 4 times for for the rest of the lab (25% of the lab in each group). Each group will get a 2 week, 1 week, 1 day warning and then the old imap account will be retired. The process will start for the IT Division on Tuesday, March 15, and for each of 4 groups that compose the rest of the lab - one a week for the following month.
