1 Archiving Emails From A Sendmail Based Email Server: Synchronizing Users

Archiving Emails from a Sendmail Based Email Server
1 Archiving Emails from a Sendmail Based Email Server

Please note: This tutorial only covers the specifics of archiving an email server based on the mail transfer agent Sendmail. It is assumed that you already have a MailStore Server installation or test installation [1] and are familiar with the fundamentals of MailStore Server. Please refer to the Manual or Quick Start Guide [2] for more information. MailStore Server offers several ways to archive emails from a Sendmail server, which are described below. If you are not sure which archiving method best suits your company, please refer to the chapter Choosing the Right Archiving Strategy.
Synchronizing Users
Additionally to file-based user databases, an email server based on the mail transfer agent Exim may also use SQL databases or LDAP directory services to manage and authenticate users. As MailStore Server also supports Active Directory and other LDAP directory services (e.g. OpenLDAP), it is recommended to set up synchronization in MailStore as well. Additional information on synchronizing users can be found in the corresponding chapters of the MailStore Server manual: Active Directory Integration Generic LDAP Integration Note: When batch-archiving IMAP mailboxes MailStore Server automatically creates non-existing users. The authentication type of those users will be set to MailStore-integrated.
Archiving Individual Mailboxes

Mail transfer agents such as Sendmail are only responsible for transporting emails and, when acting as mail delivery agent, for the delivery to local mailboxes. For accessing the emails in the mailboxes with MailStore, an IMAP- or POP3 service (called mail retrieval agent) must be installed and started on the email server. If access to the email server via the IMAP and/or POP3 protocol is possible, please refer to the corresponding chapter Archiving Server Mailboxes in the MailStore Server manual to set up the archiving process.
Archiving Multiple Mailboxes in One Step

Mail transfer agents such as Sendmail are only responsible for transporting emails and, when acting as mail delivery agent, for the delivery to local mailboxes. For accessing the emails in the mailboxes with MailStore, an IMAP- or POP3 service (called mail retrieval agent) has to be installed and started on the email server. If access to the email server via the IMAP protocol is possible, please refer to the corresponding chapter Batch-archiving IMAP Mailboxes in the MailStore Server manual to set up the archiving process.
Archiving Emails from a Sendmail Based Email Server
Archiving Incoming and Outgoing Emails Directly

Step 1: Configuration of Sendmail
When archiving emails during sending and receiving, it is recommended to have Sendmail send a copy of all emails to an additional mailbox in addition to delivering the messages to their respective users. Because Sendmail is one of the most flexible mail transfer agent available, there is no best practice guide for setting up the functionality described above. How Sendmail is configured to send a copy of all emails to an additional mailbox mainly depends on your system environment. Since Sendmail 8.10 it is recommended to use the libmilter interface to add features to Sendmail. A database with all available Milter plug-ins is available at https:/ / www. milter. org. There is also a special section with archiving solutions. The listed plug-ins differ substantially in the way they are integrated into Sendmail and the way they work. The main objective is to send copies of all emails - including envelope header - to an archiving mailbox which is accessible by IMAP or POP3.
Step 2: Configuration of MailStore Server

Configure MailStore Server to archive this mailbox at regular intervals (e.g. daily at 11pm) using an archiving task of type Archiving IMAP and POP3 Multidrop Mailboxes. After archiving, emails can and should be deleted from the archiving mailbox automatically by MailStore Server. The MailStore archiving task can be configured accordingly.
Weblinks
MailStore Support [3] Sendmail Consortium Homepage [4] Milter Homepage [5]
References
[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] http:/ / www. mailstore. com/ en/ lp/ sendlicense. aspx http:/ / www. mailstore. com/ en/ doc/ server4-quickstart-en. pdf http:/ / www. mailstore. com/ en/ support. aspx http:/ / www. sendmail. org/ https:/ / www. milter. org/

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Archiving Individual Mailboxes

Archiving Multiple Mailboxes in One Step

Archiving Emails from a Sendmail Based Email Server

Archiving Incoming and Outgoing Emails Directly

Step 2: Configuration of MailStore Server

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