The process for migrating a BCS/CVS e-mail account to O365 is as follows.
At a predetermined day and time, several things will happen simultaneously:
- logins to your old accounts ("<you>@mail.cvs.rochester.edu" or "<you>@cvs.rochester.edu") will be disabled. - University IT will create your account in O365...the address will be "<your_netID>@ur.rochester.edu". - University IT will begin the process of migrating all of your e-mail currently residing on our mail server to your new O365 account. - Your old accounts will start autoforwarding newly received e-mail to your O365 account.
Note that the process of migrating your data to O365 may take a considerable amount of time...more than a day for the larger IMAP users.
Once this process begins, you now need to modify your e-mail client(s) so you can start using O365. This means adding the O365 account to each client.
Instructions for adding an O365 account to Thunderbird using the IMAP protocol are here: O365ThunderbirdImap
Instructions for adding an )365 account to Thunderbird using the POP protocol are here: O365ThunderbirdPop