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On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 05:32:35PM +0100, Grant Sewell wrote: > > 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? > Not that I have used it but I have thought about it: use a backup MX? -- Henry Photocopies or faxes of my signature are not binding. This email has been signed with an electronic signature in accordance with subsection 7(3) of the Electronic Communications Act 2000. Digital Key Signature: GPG RSA 0xFB447AA1 Thu Apr 9 17:50:03 BST 2009
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