How to get e-mail messages from Mail Scanner?

[Jim West]

Do you have a POP server running, i.e. DoveCot perchance?

If so, just have the customer POP into your server and pull the mail.

If I recall, OutLook does still support POP accounts.

- Jim
At 12:48 PM 7/16/2007, you wrote:
>Jason Gottschalk wrote:
>>Hello MailScanner,
>>
>>I have a customer that has lost his exchange mailbox. I have been
>>archiving mail for this customer for some time. With Filters, I can
>>see the e-mail he has sent and received for a long time.
>>
>>How do I get these messages out of the system so I can import them
>>into his outlook?
>>
>>I can click the "[ ]" and send them one at a time, but that will takes
>>years!
>>
>>any ideas?
>>
>>
>>
>Don't know how to do it, but if I had to do it I'd attack the 
>problem this way:
>
>1. Find a specific set of criteria (could be more than one) to 
>separate the messages I want from the rest (for example, all 
>messages that have 192.168.x.z in them since they would have been 
>sent from the client's particular box, plus all messages that say 
>"client at client.com" somwhere on the same line as the word "From:".
>2. Take every file that fits that criteria and copy it somewhere 
>else (from the quarantine or the archive)
>3. Place those files in the MTA's queue (for example, in sendmail it 
>should be /var/spool/mqueue)
>4. ...
>5. Profit!
>
>Just kidding about those last two. Anybody here with a better 
>understanding of the mechanics of MailScanner could tell you if this 
>would work.
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