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Quoting Grant Sewell <dcglug@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: >> > 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? >> > >> Not that I have used it but I have thought about it: use a backup MX? > > We have a number of users who collect their email directly from the 1&1 > server by POP3, and who are never in the office - literally, *never*. > I don't want to have to phone up 20-odd people and talk them through > how to reconfigure their email client (a mix of Thunderbird (yay) and > Outlook (boo)) to pick up their email from us instead of from 1&1. > They're not the most tech-savy bunch I've ever met. Can you not force it using Domain Policies for the Outlook users? Some of the MS guys I used to know swore blind that policies would do absolutely anything that you wanted them to including installing and configuring software - maybe this is a chnace to put that to the test! > Ah, the joys of jumping in and trying to fix the mess left by people > who came before me. Yup, but I can't think of a single organisation I've worked for where there's not been a need for improvement on the current/previous systems and I'm fairly sure I've left a few systems behind me that my successors would disagree with the way in which they're setup. There is a tool that you can run on a Linux server that will copy via IMAP between email servers. You could cron this to run once or twice a day to copy the email to something more stable (such as courier or Cyrus) and when the time comes to migrate, the mail server is already there with a complete mail history in place. Just a thought... M. -- Matthew Macdonald-Wallace matthew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.truthisfreedom.org.uk/ -- 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