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Hi all, Yes, I know this is a Linux list but I don't know of any DCWUGs (and I'm sick of the Windows support forums full of people who reckon Windows is the best thing since best things were invented). Might have a major issue at work of emails that have gone missing, essentially due to Microsoft's wonderful product. SBS2008 with Exchange 2007. Our MX records point to a 1&1 server. Exchange's POP3 connector downloads these emails every 5 minutes and stores them in Exchange. Brilliantly there is no option (that I can find) to "keep messages on POP3 server" - they get annihilated. This wouldn't be a problem except... An update failed (see the other topic for my rant about it). This prevented the backup service from running, so 10pm last night was the most recent backup. It did not, however, stop the POP3 Connector service from running, so mail was still being pulled down throughout the night (bear in mind that this company deals with a lot of international customers who would have been emailing us during this time). So, there is a window between 10pm last night and 9am this morning (when I found the server in a very poorly state) where the emails were being retrieved, stored in Exchange, but not backed up. (My backup schedule is for every 3 hours). To avoid this in the future, I'd like to use an alternative POP3 connector (well, there are a lot of other things I'd prefer to use, but for some crazy reason (even after this massive cock-up) they still want to keep the Windows server) that does *not* delete mail from it's parent. Any (sensible) suggestions? Cheers all. A very frustrated Grant. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html