How To: Find email or documents in Notes Mailfile causing problems (4353243)

During an email migration sometimes it will interrupt the migration as it comes across an email in the Lotus Notes mailfile it can not migrate. This can have undesired effects on the migration.  

These effects can include:

1. Failed migrations
2. Multiple retries
3. Excessive MAPI retries and timeouts

This can be caused by documents being corrupt in the Domino mailfile.

To locate the message that might be causing this issue do the following:

Step A: Locate the mail in the Migration Log

1. Locate the scratch log that is written to the %tmp% directory on the NME console running the migration
2. Open it using some Tail program, SnakeTail for example; this is based on Unix's Tail program allowing access to an open file that is being written.
3. Round about the time the migration process appears to stop, look at the active log. You might notice a mail causing the issue.

Step B: Deal with the mail/document in question

Once you find the mail. Stop the migration process. Do the following:

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2. Rerun the migration

If this does not resolve the situation. Return to Step A to confirm the mail/document causing the issue. It might be a different one.

Step C: Other options

1. Copy the email out of the current mailfile into another mailfile.
2. Delete the email if possible.
3. Rerun the migration.