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 <[email protected] > wrote: > > Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=============== > 2138949361795003994==" > > 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 > -- Don Bivens Carolina Networking, Inc. 704-619-0945
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