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A previous company I worked for had a one month retention window in the email server. People just ended up storing email in their local machine's Outlook folder
by shard 6y ago
A previous company I worked for had a one month retention window in the email server. People just ended up storing email in their local machine's Outlook folder so they can refer to old emails.
- ianmcgowan 6y agoOr for the more technical folk with access to a linux server, setup postfix/dovecot, connect outlook to it and arrange for archived emails to go to the IMAP server. The IT people get smart about looking for OST or PST files, but let's see them catch that :-)
- realaether 6y agoAny pointers on getting started with the postfix/dovecot method?
- ianmcgowan 6y agoIf you have a Linux box (or a VM), install and configure it to route mail and provide IMAP support. Digital Ocean has the best tutorials for this: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-a-postfix-e-mail-server-with-dovecot https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-... Then configure a new mail account in Outlook and connect to the IMAP server. It's optional, but convenient for replies, to configure the account to send via postfix if you have an internal SMTP server to connect to. I gave up on email folders years ago, so at the end of the month would just create two new folders in the archive account (YYYYMM and YYYYMM_Sent) and drag all the mail from the Exchange account into the IMAP folders. Et voila! You now have your own local email archive.