Conversion of Pegasus Email and Folders to GroupWise

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Conversion of Pegasus Email and Folders to
GroupWise
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER
Presents
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Pegasus

• Before you are scheduled to be converted to
  Windows 2000, you need to clean house. Open
  Pegasus from your Start menu or by double
  clicking on the desktop shortcut.

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Pegasus

• Delete all unnecessary emails from your New Mail
  Folder, filing trays and folders (the more
  files you have the longer the conversion will
  take)

• Move all emails into filing trays and folders
  (anything left in the New Mail Folder will not be
  converted)

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Pegasus

• Once a folder is cleaned up
• Right-click the folder
• Choose Recover deleted space

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Pegasus

• Recover deleted space
• When you delete a message from a folder, Pegasus
  Mail does not immediately reclaim the space it
  occupies instead, it waits until you have
  deleted around 20000 characters from the folder
  then recovers all the space in a single pass.
  This deferred compression improves the
  performance of the program at the cost of some
  disk space. Select this option to force Pegasus
  Mail to recover the space from a folder
  immediately. Compression is always a safe option
  and does not result in the loss of anything other
  than deleted information. You cannot compress
  tray entries. - Pegasus Help

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Patience is a Virtue

• Virtue is a grace,
• Grace is a little girl,
• with dirt on her face...

Try to keep Pegasus as clean as possible until
you are upgraded to Windows 2000.
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UniAccess
Once Windows 2000 is installed on your machine

• Open UniAccess from your Start menu,
• ---Repair---
• UniAccess

This will Install UniAccess on your computer.
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UniAccess

• Launch UniAccess from your Start menu,
• Programs
• UniAccess
• UniAccess

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UniAccess
This is the first Window for UniAccess. You want
to convert your Message Folders, click the Next
-gt button to continue.
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UniAccess
You want to Convert From Pegasus, and Convert
To GroupWise Gateway, click the Next -gt button.
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UniAccess
Your Pegasus Mail Dir is W\pmail, click the
Next -gt button.
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UniAccess
GroupWise User is your login name (example
prcowart), the Gateway Output Dir is
\\meigs\groupwise\hsc_dom\wpgate\api, click the
Next -gt button.
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UniAccess
On this window, click on the first folder listed.
Use the Scroll bar to move to the end of the list.
Hold down the Shift key on the keyboard,
Shift ?
And click on the last folder shown. Everything
should highlight.
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UniAccess
The first field should be blank, the three
options should be unchecked, set the Max
Attachment Size to 999999, and the Max
Distribution List to 9999. The Oldest Msg Date
should be Jan 1, 1980. Name Conversion should
be blank. Click on the Start button to begin.
If you have messages older than 01/01/80 they
will not be converted.
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UniAccess
UniAccess will convert each of your files and
folders.
The amount of time this process will take depends
on how many (and the size of) your folders,
emails and attachments.
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UniAccess
When UniAccess is finished, you will see a
Conversion Report such as this one. Click OK to
complete the process, and then Exit.
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GroupWise

• Open GroupWise from your Start menu or by double
  clicking on the desktop shortcut.

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GroupWise

• Open your Cabinet
• Notice the first folder
  My mailbox
• This contains all your
  Pegasus Folders

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Conversion Issues
There is no perfect conversion process. Here are
some issues.

• The Name field that represents who the email is
  from, now shows Imported for Senders Name
• The Date field that represents when the email was
  sent, now shows the day the email was converted.
• The properties of the email will show you its
  creation date.

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Conversion Issues
To be able to see the Created Date for every
email you need to add a column. Right Click on
the title bar for the folder you are viewing.
Choose More columns.
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Conversion Issues
Choose Created from the list of Available
columns. Click the gtgtAddgtgt button. When you
click OK you will see a new column called Created.
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Conversion Issues

• This is what the email looks like when you open
  it. Notice the From and To fields look
  different, but Subject and Message remain
  unchanged.

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Conversion Issues

• The Reply feature is available, but since the
  conversion has taken place, GroupWise does not
  understand who this message originally came from.