How to Migrate Emails from GroupWise to Lotus Notes – Simple Steps

  

Published By Jamie Kaler 

Approved By Rollins Duke

Published On June 21st, 2022

Reading Time 5 Min Read

GroupWise is a very popular email management platform, facilitating users to manage mailboxes on Desktop or webmail. The cloud competency gives it an upper hand over other services.

But, a significant breakthrough comes in the Email communication industry. The IBM Notes, having millions of users was purchased by an IT giant HCL. With the release of HCL Notes, a significant number of users have started the migration to Lotus Notes client.

Lotus Notes, IBM Notes, or HCL Notes support importing data as NSF files. So, if you want to migrate GroupWise emails to Lotus Notes, the only way is to create NSF files from GroupWise.

Because, I also had done it in the past, so I am here writing about my personal experience. I hope you will also get all your query resolved.

Amazing Features of GroupWise to NSF Converter

There is a large number of amazing features offered by this software. Here is a list of some of them:

• Supports Unicode Character Set:

The utility is an agile solution to convert your complete mailboxes of GroupWise to Lotus Notes client. It supports non-English, multi-lingual & Unicode character set for the migration of emails.

• Convert Multiple GroupWise Mailboxes:

The utility includes a quick way to load multiple GroupWise user’s account information. It will help in batch processing of migration of emails from GroupWise email service to IBM Notes client. Create a CSV file, list the credentials in it & then open it in software.

• Convert Selective GW emails:

This application has inbuilt filter settings to convert only selective emails of GroupWise emails to Lotus Notes client. these filter settings can be applied on the parameters of To, From, Subject or Date.

• Migrate Groupwise to NSF with Attachments:

An email may contain multiple Attachments objects embedded within it. This utility has a special feature to migrate GroupWise to Lotus Notes client along with all inserted attachments. It supports all types of attachment files including Text files, Word documents, PDF. Zip etc.

• Solution for Mac & Windows Users:

The application is fully compatible with both Mac & Windows OS. You can run this toolkit on Microsoft Windows OS i.e., Win 10, 8.1, 8, 7, XP, Vista, etc. as well as also on Mac OS X. It works on IMAP data migration concept & hence a user can migrate all the emails from Groupwise to HCL Notes through IMAP.

Guide of the Working of the Application:

Step-1 Install and Run the GroupWise to NSF Converter in your Mac or Windows machine.

Step-2 Select the Batch Mode option to load multiple account details GroupWise.

Step-3 To load data click on the login button.

Step-4 The application will list all the emails of GroupWise in its panel. You can choose all the required emails according to the need.

Step-5 Select the Lotus Notes saving option from the list.

Step-6 Setup all the options for the conversion like destination folder path, advanced filter settings (Date Range, To, From, Subject), etc.

Step-7 Instantly start the GroupWise to IBM Notes migration process. A user can analyze the process directly in its panel.

Step-8 Get resultant NSF files from the destination path.

That’s it from Me:

I had tried my best to provide you an easy solution to migrate GroupWise emails to the IBM Notes email client. A large number of users are looking for this toolkit. Lotus Notes security functions attract customers from all over the globe. So, it will be a wise choice to transfer your emails into Lotus Notes email client.