<DKIM> Greetings and quick question

[Don Bivens]

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.

On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 7:15 PM, Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev at laposte.net
> wrote:

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> Yuck!
>
> On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 02:32:27PM -0400, Don Bivens wrote:
>
> >    I have what might be an odd scenario as I have not found a solution
> >    elsewhere.  I am using the iRedMail product distro (uses IMAP on
> mySQL) to
> >    backup an Exchange installation...or I'm trying to.  What I would
> like to
> >    accomplish is having a real time database of all sent/received
> emails.
> >    That's easy enough and I've already got that working.  What is a bit
> more
> >    challenging is trying to maintain the end-user's folder structure.
>
> >    The company uses folders extensively to track email for project-based
> >    work.  An email will come in from user at companyA.com and the end user
> will
> >    move that email from Inbox to FolderA and so on.  The reason this is
> >    important is for future tracking.  If they have deleted all of
> ProjectA
> >    from their Exchange message store, intentionally or otherwise, they
> find
> >    it easiest to search based on these folder names (as opposed to using
> some
> >    kind of SQL search criteria).
>
> >    So now I'm using forwards at the SMTP level to send all in/out emails
> from
> >    Exchange to iRedMail (using postfix as SMTP).  Obviously this doesn't
> do
> >    anything with IMAP folders.  That's how found offlineimap.  If I
> could run
> >    perpetual imapsync jobs (and exclude deletions) then every time the
> end
> >    user moved an email from Inbox to ProjectA the change would sync to my
> >    backing email store in iRedMail and deletions would be ignored and
> then
> >    we'd retain all emails perpetually.
>
> Might work if you own the credentials of the users (very poor practice).
>
> Why don't you follow the editor's recommendations?
>
>   https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/aa579158(v=
> exchg.140).aspx
>   https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb125218(v=exchg.141).aspx
>
> This really sounds like a question for Microsoft on how to
> backup/restore mailboxes in a per-user basis.
>
> --
> Nicolas Sebrecht
>



-- 
Don Bivens
Carolina Networking, Inc.

704-619-0945
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