TWN Systems
Customer decision report
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Medium friction at this mail environment size
Plan around 134 hours of migration, pilot, validation, and coexistence work before retiring the old system.
Entered assumptions
- Current mail system
- Microsoft 365 or Exchange
- User mailboxes
- 50
- Shared mailboxes or groups
- 8
- Users with calendars or contacts
- 30
- Mail-connected systems
- 6
- Retention and compliance need
- Medium
- Migration hours per mailbox
- 0.8
- Delivery or internal rate / hour
- $120.00
- Stalwart infrastructure / month
- $350.00
- Coexistence or pilot weeks
- 4
Where friction usually appears
Mail can look simple until a team relies on every edge around it.
- Login names, aliases, groups, shared mailboxes, and permissions
- Calendars, contacts, filters, flags, folders, and stored files
- Mobile clients, desktop profiles, scanners, alerts, and application relays
- MX, SPF, DKIM, DMARC, DNS timing, spam handling, and delivery reputation
- Retention, legal hold, recovery, support ownership, and rollback
A safer shape for the move
Start with a pilot and keep the old service available. Move a few accounts, validate every data type, watch delivery, and only then increase the batch. A reversible account-by-account move is easier to reason about than one large cutover.
Recommended next step
Run a technical pilot with a shared mailbox, a calendar-heavy user, an application relay, and a rollback drill before setting a cutover date.
Read the caveat
Stalwart provides migration tooling, but your source data, identity setup, DNS, devices, contracts, and operating capability still determine the real effort.