MAIL AND DIRECTORY MIGRATION
Overview of migrating personal address book information
Users who have migrated to Lotus Notes may retain personal address book information from their old mail system by migrating the information to a Notes Personal Address Book (PAB).

There are two types of personal address book entries users can migrate:


When migrating personal address book information, the upgrade wizards convert private addresses to Contact entries in the PAB. Users migrating from the cc:Mail 8.x client cannot migrate private addresses.

Personal mailing lists are converted to Multi-purpose groups in the PAB. Multi-purpose groups can be used as access control lists and deny access lists in a Server document, as well as for mailing lists.

How the upgrade wizards obtain personal address book information

The user upgrade wizards read migrated address book information from either or both of two sources, depending on the mail system the user is migrating from:


The upgrade wizard copies information from message attachments and data files to the PAB on the user's Lotus Notes client.

Migrating cc:Mail personal address book information

For users migrating from cc:Mail, the upgrade wizard extracts some personal address book information from a message attachment and some from a data file on the user's workstation. The upgrade wizard obtains a user's private mailing lists, which are stored with the user's cc:Mail mail box, from a PAB attachment in the user's Notes mail file. Migrated users automatically receive this message if you select the option to "Mail private mailing lists as attachments" from the Conversion Settings pane of the "cc:Mail Upgrade Advanced Settings" dialog box of the cc:Mail Domino Upgrade Service.

For cc:Mail 6.x clients, the upgrade wizard obtains private addresses, directly from the file PRIVDIR.INI on the user's workstation. The cc:Mail to Lotus Notes upgrade wizard does not support migrating private addresses for cc:Mail 8.x users.

Migrating Microsoft Mail personal address book information

For users migrating from Microsoft Mail, the upgrade wizard extracts information from a temporary Notes PAB attached to a Notes mail message. This temporary PAB contains personal addresses and personal mailing lists migrated from their mailbox (MMF) file. Migrated users automatically receive a message with the attached PAB if you select the option to "Convert Personal Address Books" from the "MS Mail Advanced Options" dialog box of the Microsoft Mail Domino Upgrade Service.

Migrating Microsoft Exchange personal address book information

For users migrating from Microsoft Exchange, the upgrade wizard extracts personal address book information from two possible sources, depending on the client mail application used. The Outlook mail client can store address book information in a Contacts list on the Exchange server, and in a Personal Address Book (PAB) file on the user's workstation. The Exchange mail client stores all personal address book information in a PAB file on the user's workstation. The upgrade wizard obtains the Outlook Contacts list from a temporary PAB attached to a Notes mail message. Migrated users automatically receive this message if they had Contacts information defined.

Migrating Microsoft Outlook Express personal address book information

For users migrating from Microsoft Outlook Express, the upgrade wizard provides a menu option for exporting contact and group information to a local PAB. Users can export personal address book information at any time. When users export personal address book information, the Microsoft Outlook Express upgrade wizard copies contacts and groups from the Outlook Express personal address book to the Notes PAB.