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Jaruzel writes:
"I have an on-premises Microsoft Exchange system that hosts my families personal email, which has gone through several upgrades over the years. However Exchange 2013 is now too bloated for my needs, and I find myself wanting to migrate my email services to a cloud provider.
The kicker is that although I only have about 5 live accounts, I have over 200 email aliases attached to those accounts. Most of the cloud providers out there do not support this configuration, or charge per 'address' which makes the cost prohibitive for personal email.
Do any SoylentNewsers know of, or can advise the best way to migrate this lot out of my garage without losing all my aliases or having to pay through the nose?"
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by voyager529 on Thursday March 20 2014, @08:32PM
The question and implied answer don't necessarily line up...
1.) Why leave Exchange 2010? It's supported for the next ten years, all your mail will happily scurry about the internet, and clearly the server is in place. Unless there's some sort of explicit feature you're looking for in Exchange 2013, I'd tell you to stick with what's clearly working.
2.) If that's not practical, why not check out Icewarp? It's an excellent Exchange alternative that does all the Exchange stuff, including Active Directory and ActiveSync stuff. If you can set up Exchange, you can set up Icewarp...and yes, there's a direct migration tool available for you.
3.) If you MUST go to a hosted provider, why not do some sort of 'forwarding' method using contacts and sub-accounts? If a hosted provider allows for, say, five aliases per object, can you assign aliases to contacts, and then point the contacts to the actual mailbox? For those providers that charge by the alias you're still screwed, but if there are any that charge by the object, it may be 'less expensive'.