Re: mail server
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 7:58 PM, Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
Thanks, its been very helpful.
>
> Greetings,
>
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