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Title: Retreiving email from a dead SME server
Post by: boringgit on October 16, 2004, 06:55:23 PM

I am looking for a way to retreive mail from a clients SME server which died rather spectacularly.

They have since moved to an alternative server, so no chance of just copying the mail over and being done with it.

I am not convinced that the old server HDD is going to be bootable but I am pretty confident that the data will be in an accesible form.

I recall a Linux prog which would trawl through the plain text email files and archive to an HTML based solution.. not that I can remember what it was called or find it  :cry:

Any help appreciated!

Title: Retreiving email from a dead SME server
Post by: guest22 on October 17, 2004, 12:32:21 AM

www.knoppix.net

:-)

Title: Retreiving email from a dead SME server
Post by: boringgit on October 17, 2004, 02:14:08 AM

Cheers for that ;)

I actually use Mandrake on my main PC, so accessing the files is not difficult, Trouble is I need to provide them with a useable method of reading the emails.

If I could boot the system I would just dump 'em all into a couple of PST files and be done with it...

This tool was a brilliant looking thing - never actually got around to using it, despite downloading it a few times. It tool a standard unix style plain text email directory / directories, and it would produce an html archive with indexes and attachments..

I bookmarked it a few times, but have long since lost them....

If I do find it I will post it back, as the idea is a great one