Setting Up Entoutage on a Mac Server

[Billy D]

My company, Vintage Marketing has 9 employees and we use Entourage
with a POP mail. I would like to set up a server in house so we can
keep a backup copy of our emails. I would like to have the server keep
a copy of the mail and then have the email routed from the server to
the individual desktops and Powerbooks, that way, I have a copy on the
server and a copy on the individual desktops. Do I set the server up
as IMAP? How? Our dilema is that some of the employees here have email
databases that are 1.2 GB in size and are too large to leave a copy on
our ISP server.

I hope I am explaining myself clearly:
A. Mail comes in and sent from www.vintagemarketing.com (our hosting
Co) Sometimes I switch my sending mail to our ISP SMTP if my hosting
comapny is down (IPOWERWEB).
B. I want the mail to come into my server (Still to be set up)
C. I want the mail to be routed from the server to the individual
desktops.

Thus creating a duplicate backup of email databases and making the
owner and partners happy assured that thir email is backed up if they
ever loose their Powerbooks.

I am hoping someone can point me in the right dircetion to get this up
and running. Thank you in advance!!

Billy D
[email protected]

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur [MVP]]

Hi Bill,

My company, Vintage Marketing has 9 employees and we use Entourage
with a POP mail. I would like to set up a server in house so we can
keep a backup copy of our emails. I would like to have the server keep
a copy of the mail and then have the email routed from the server to
the individual desktops and Powerbooks, that way, I have a copy on the
server and a copy on the individual desktops. Do I set the server up
as IMAP? How? Our dilema is that some of the employees here have email
databases that are 1.2 GB in size and are too large to leave a copy on
our ISP server.

I see... I have no idea how you setup the server precisely (I don't have
access to an Exchange server). As far as the rest goes, you could ask
the users to move some of their e-mails to an Entourage folder outside
the Exchange account (and delete it from the Exchange server) from time
to time to free some space on the server (that's what I do). The e-mails
are still accessible on the Mac (It's simply moved to a folder on the
Mac instead of in the Excahnge account).

I hope I am explaining myself clearly:
A. Mail comes in and sent from www.vintagemarketing.com (our hosting
Co) Sometimes I switch my sending mail to our ISP SMTP if my hosting
comapny is down (IPOWERWEB).

SMTP will remain the same.

B. I want the mail to come into my server (Still to be set up)

As it does right now.

C. I want the mail to be routed from the server to the individual
desktops.

You can do it through IMAP (that's what the Exchange accoutns use)

Thus creating a duplicate backup of email databases and making the
owner and partners happy assured that thir email is backed up if they
ever loose their Powerbooks.

That would work for everything on the Exchange server but not for the
data backed up to the computers. The option would be to move the e-mails
to the computer and then backup the Entourage Database in case something
bad happens. When the time comes to move some more data away from the
server, simply re-backup the database as well.


Would that work ???


Corentin

 

[Billy D]

Corentin,

Thanks for your response. Can I set it up with no exchange server and
use the Apache software on the MAc?

Billy

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur [MVP]]

Corentin,

Hi Bill,

Thanks for your response. Can I set it up with no exchange server and
use the Apache software on the MAc?

Actually, I'm not sure Apache would help in this case (it mostly offers
http hosting).
On the other hand, MacOS X comes with a very complete POP/SMTP/IMAP
server application. It's Postfix under MacOS X 10.3 and SendMail before
that. Postfix is not too complicated to setup (some sharewares even help
you in this regard) and can do about anything!!!


Corentin