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On 09/04/2009 17:32, Grant Sewell wrote: > Hi all, > > Yes, I know this is a Linux list but I don't know of any DCWUGs (and > I'm sick of the Windows support forums full of people who reckon > Windows is the best thing since best things were invented). > > Might have a major issue at work of emails that have gone missing, > essentially due to Microsoft's wonderful product. > > SBS2008 with Exchange 2007. Our MX records point to a 1&1 server. > Exchange's POP3 connector downloads these emails every 5 minutes and > stores them in Exchange. Brilliantly there is no option (that I can > find) to "keep messages on POP3 server" - they get annihilated. This > wouldn't be a problem except... > > An update failed (see the other topic for my rant about it). This > prevented the backup service from running, so 10pm last night was the > most recent backup. It did not, however, stop the POP3 Connector > service from running, so /mail was still being pulled down throughout > the night (bear in mind that this company deals with a lot of > international customers who would have been emailing us during this > time). > > So, there is a window between 10pm last night and 9am this morning > (when I found the server in a very poorly state) where the emails were > being retrieved, stored in Exchange, but not backed up. (My backup > schedule is for every 3 hours). > > To avoid this in the future, I'd like to use an alternative POP3 > connector (well, there are a lot of other things I'd prefer to use, but > for some crazy reason (even after this massive cock-up) they still want > to keep the Windows server) that does *not* delete mail from it's > parent. > > Any (sensible) suggestions? > > Cheers all. > A very frustrated Grant. > > There seems to be all sorts of non-free solutions which seem to cost a couple of hundred quid but I can't find anything directly relating to the Microsoft Exchange POP3 connector. Maybe Microsoft left it out? (although I presume it would be a registry hack knowing Microsoft). I wonder if a workaround would be to setup a Linux box on an old machine to download the mail using POP3 and then forwarding it on via SMTP to the Exchange server? That way you can presumably either keep a local copy on the Linux box either until the disc starts to get full or for a specified amount of time (I'm guessing) or get it to leave the mail on the server. Not an elegant solution but it might at least give you a bit of increased safety? Would the company you work for let you have any Linux box, even say if it was using an old recycled PC? Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html