On 29 Mar 10:23, Mark Rogers wrote:
I have an "old" Exchange Server (2008), which I'm decommissioning.
On it there are several mailboxes which I'd like archived so that I can access them as IMAP folders on another (Linux) machine in future if I need to. We no longer have an internal mail server of any variety to host the mailbox archive (we've moved to Google Apps) so I'll be settings something up specially (probably a virtual machine).
The majority of the mailboxes are "general" ones like sales, accounts, etc, and a lot of the others are for people who no longer work for the business, so ideally I'll move the email into one new account with folders for sales/accounts/etc rather than create them as different accounts.
Any suggestions as to the best way to do this? There will be several GB of email in total.
My main concern is to retain as much information as possible, such as email headers and timestamps. I considered pulling all the email via POP3 into a mail client on my desktop but I'm not confident that I won't end up losing some of that information (timestamps being the main thing: I still want to see when the email "arrived", not have it look like the email arrived at the time I did the POP3 transfer).
Turn on the IMAP server in exchange, grant a user access to all the mailboxes, use offlineimap to download all the mail somewhere else in to a maildir structure, rejoice.