Email Archiving with EEM (Inovox)

[rnaidu]

Hi,

We are planning to use EEM (inovox) along with Alfresco for Email Archiving. Can you send us the requirements & setup steps for setting this up.

We have MS Exchange 2003 Server running on Windows 2003 Domain Server.

Please send the details , how to setup email archving using EEM & Alfresco.

regards,
Ramesh

If anyone has other options of doing email archiving using proxy , can send the details also.

[cburghardt]

Well. basically you need to do the following:
- install the Alfresco extension (http://forge.alfresco.com/projects/email) in your Alfresco server
- install the proxy (http://sourceforge.net/projects/emailarchiving) on any server

With exchange the most common setup is to start the proxy on port 25 (which is normally used by your exchange server), change the port of your exchange server and let the proxy forward the emails to your exchange server. This way your server is "shadowed" by the proxy and you don't have to add another transport.

Hope that helps

Carsten

[tomu702]

A few questions about this integration.

1. if you are using the proxy to capture email against exchange, will the proxy actually catch emails that are sent within exchange or will it only catch emails that are outbound to other SMTP servers. It looks to me that the proxy assumes that you will be c ommunciating to exchange using POP3 from outlook as opposed to native exchange.

2. does this configuration support single instance storage of emails?

3. is there a way to use exchange journaling to push emails to alfresco?

4. how do users access their archived email?

[cburghardt]

A few questions about this integration.

1. if you are using the proxy to capture email against exchange, will the proxy actually catch emails that are sent within exchange or will it only catch emails that are outbound to other SMTP servers. It looks to me that the proxy assumes that you will be c ommunciating to exchange using POP3 from outlook as opposed to native exchange.

The proxy supports SMTP and POP3 but it will not catch the communication within exchange. But AFAIK you can use virtual servers and switch the communication to SMTP.

2. does this configuration support single instance storage of emails?

No as that's the responsibility of the archiving. The proxy passes the email to the archiving (which can be Alfresco) plugin and this one is responsible to use/implement all further functionality.

3. is there a way to use exchange journaling to push emails to alfresco?

Not with the proxy as it's designed to use open standards so that's why it uses SMTP and POP3.

4. how do users access their archived email?

They access them through Alfresco if you allow them.

[baby77]

Hey
i install inovox-alfresco-email-extension and proxy. Both are running.How can i know recieve mail in Alfresco?
What is next step,can someone help?

Thx.

[cburghardt]

Well, the proxy needs to capture your emails either via SMTP or POP, see the installation guide of the package. Then you configure the Alfresco plugin so that it saves those emails to Alfresco, again see the installation guide.

[baby77]

Ok,tnx for answer i will go again over the guide.