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Page 12: Migration process

Most of the later steps can be done via Hermes webmail and Jackdaw,
but it's fiddly.

Redirection fixing has to be done in the right order
and it's easy to forget to fix one of the three places.

New Hermes doesn't store mailboxes in a conventional file system,
so ftp and scp can't be used.

Mailbox names may need to be renamed because they clash or because
they need to be trimmed.

A special tool can collect together all the operations
into an easy package.