<div dir="ltr">It's not really a Microsoft issue. Backing up Exchange is not at issue. Nobody does perpetual backups to capture all emails that may come in or out EXCEPT through cloud-based archive services. I can quite easily do the same thing right now with SMTP forward rules in Exchange. I was hoping to keep the folder structure somehow.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 7:15 PM, Nicolas Sebrecht <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net" target="_blank">nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
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Yuck!<br>
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On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 02:32:27PM -0400, Don Bivens wrote:<br>
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> I have what might be an odd scenario as I have not found a solution<br>
> elsewhere. I am using the iRedMail product distro (uses IMAP on mySQL) to<br>
> backup an Exchange installation...or I'm trying to. What I would like to<br>
> accomplish is having a real time database of all sent/received emails. <br>
> That's easy enough and I've already got that working. What is a bit more<br>
> challenging is trying to maintain the end-user's folder structure.<br>
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> The company uses folders extensively to track email for project-based<br>
> work. An email will come in from user@companyA.com and the end user will<br>
> move that email from Inbox to FolderA and so on. The reason this is<br>
> important is for future tracking. If they have deleted all of ProjectA<br>
> from their Exchange message store, intentionally or otherwise, they find<br>
> it easiest to search based on these folder names (as opposed to using some<br>
> kind of SQL search criteria).<br>
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> So now I'm using forwards at the SMTP level to send all in/out emails from<br>
> Exchange to iRedMail (using postfix as SMTP). Obviously this doesn't do<br>
> anything with IMAP folders. That's how found offlineimap. If I could run<br>
> perpetual imapsync jobs (and exclude deletions) then every time the end<br>
> user moved an email from Inbox to ProjectA the change would sync to my<br>
> backing email store in iRedMail and deletions would be ignored and then<br>
> we'd retain all emails perpetually.<br>
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Might work if you own the credentials of the users (very poor practice).<br>
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Why don't you follow the editor's recommendations?<br>
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<a href="https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/aa579158(v=exchg.140).aspx" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-<wbr>us/library/office/aa579158(v=<wbr>exchg.140).aspx</a><br>
<a href="https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb125218(v=exchg.141).aspx" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://technet.microsoft.com/<wbr>en-us/library/bb125218(v=<wbr>exchg.141).aspx</a><br>
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This really sounds like a question for Microsoft on how to<br>
backup/restore mailboxes in a per-user basis.<br>
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--<br>
Nicolas Sebrecht<br>
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