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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 [email protected] 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 _______________________________________________ OfflineIMAP-project mailing list: [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/offlineimap-project OfflineIMAP homepages: - https://github.com/OfflineIMAP - http://offlineimap.org
