Re: Basic Pilar Questions Before Setup With MS Exchange 2007.

[Janos SUTO]

Hello Mahmoud,

On Thu, 14 Jan 2016, Mahmoud Ramadan wrote:


I'm planning to use Pilar and integrate it with MS Exchange 2007 for
archiving BUT i need clarification regarding some points that I'm confused
about.

1.How MS Exchange will send E-Mails for archiving to Pilar , i mean what are
the configuration steps required to integrate MS Exhcnage 2007 with Pilar ?


the preferred method is to setup smtp journaling, so exchange will send a 
copy of each email to piler via smtp. For the configuration steps, see

http://www.mailpiler.org/pdf/piler-1.1.0.pdf on page 16.

Perhaps it's time to improve the docs, and add these info as well.


2.I know that Pilar will archive every new messages BUT what about exsiting
mails in the Exchange DB.I have 4 Mailbox DBs and each of them 300 GB at
least so exporting the mailboxes as PST files and then converting them as
Mbox files to import them into Pilar is NOT practical as all ! so what is
the best way to import this big size of mailboxes into Pilar ?


the impersonation feature of exchange, see below


3.What is the role of the " Impersonation with Exchange " feature ? can
anyone explain it to me ?


in a nutshell you create (or grant the role) a use for this purpose. Then 
you login all the time with this user account AND you specify which 
mailbox to read.


So you can iterate over all mailboxes using a single user account only.
See http://www.mailpiler.org/wiki/current:importing-emails for more.


Janos

Basic Pilar Questions Before Setup With MS Exchange 2007.

[Mahmoud Ramadan]

Hi Everyone,

I'm planning to use Pilar and integrate it with MS Exchange 2007 for
archiving BUT i need clarification regarding some points that I'm confused
about.

1.How MS Exchange will send E-Mails for archiving to Pilar , i mean what
are the configuration steps required to integrate MS Exhcnage 2007 with
Pilar ?

2.I know that Pilar will archive every new messages BUT what about exsiting
mails in the Exchange DB.I have 4 Mailbox DBs and each of them 300 GB at
least so exporting the mailboxes as PST files and then converting them as
Mbox files to import them into Pilar is NOT practical as all ! so what is
the best way to import this big size of mailboxes into Pilar ?

3.What is the role of the " Impersonation with Exchange " feature ? can
anyone explain it to me ?

Thanks in advance.

Best Regards,

Mahmoud Ramadan Ali

Network and VOIP Specialist.

Mobil: (+2) 01276877112

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