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Mail – Google Apps Migration for Microsoft Exchange Administration Guide User Manual

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Preparing for Your Migration

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Mail

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Mail data

Migrated to
Google Apps

Notes

Email messages

All email in top-level folders is migrated. A
top-level folder is any folder that resides at
the same level as your Inbox folder.

You have the option to exclude specific top-
level folders from migration.

Email state (read vs. unread)

Folders and nested subfolders

(Labels in Gmail)

Folders map to labels in Google Mail.

You can elect to omit top-level folders from
migration. If you omit a folder, its subfolders
are also omitted.

Junk E-mail

Migration is optional.

Deleted Items

Migration is optional. Deleted items are
labeled Trash in Google Mail.

Public folders

(

Microsoft

®

Exchange only)

Messages larger than 25 MB

Messages whose total size exceeds 25 MB
(message plus attachments) aren’t allowed in
Google Mail.

Attachments

Most attachments are migrated. See below
for exclusions.

Executable files in compressed
attachments

These types of attachments aren’t allowed in
Google Mail.

Posts in mailbox folders

(

Microsoft

®

Exchange only)

Importance levels (marking
messages high, low priority)

(

Microsoft

®

Exchange only)

Not available in Google Mail.

Message flags

Flags appear as stars in Google Mail.

Rules

(

Microsoft

®

Exchange only)

Rules aren’t migrated. But you can create
equivalent filters in Google Mail.

Signatures

(

Microsoft

®

Exchange only)

Your signature isn’t migrated. But you can
recreate it in Google Mail.