Re: mail server

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 20:21:53 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 6:44 PM, Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:

(...)

>>> since we fetch the email via pop and sent via smtp the problem is i
>>> need to make backup of individual PST.
>>
>> What? I don't get this... you mean you need to migrate the e-mails and
>> other stuff from Outlook clients to the new e-mailing service?
> 
> ok our 20 users fetching their emails from our hosted server. which is
> maintained by our service provider. and we are keeping 3 months of
> emails on our mail server and in case of email lost we can not recover
> it since we have no backup. so my proposal to my management is if we
> place a centralized mail server we can make backup of users email from
> our mail server and old mail can also be restored. you can call it
> migrating or shifting :). but the purpose of the whole idea is to
> backup all emails and to provide more options to the users like web
> access and our users will be independent from our service provider and
> will be coordinating directly with me in any problem..

Then I guess the recipe I provided before it suits your needs.

To migrate the current messages to your new-owned system you can use a 
"dummy" IMAP account to copy/paste (or simply move) the e-mails between 
the remote server and your which will work regardless the MUA in use.

Once all of the accounts are created in your own e-mail server and 
working you can start polling the new messages from your remote server 
using fetchmail/getmail and configure your users e-mail clients to 
contact your e-mail server (via imap/pop3) instead your hosted one.

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón