A bit of MailStore stuff

MailStore allows the admin user to unblock their access to the archive, granting them access to all archives, if admin access to the archive is unblocked. It may be useful to grant only Read access to all archives without granting full admin permissions…

Recovery records can be recreated from the MailStoreFileGroup.fdb file using the RecreateRecoveryRecords command…

MailStoreFileGroup.fdb can be rebuilt in-place from the recovery records…

🔗Overview of the options and risks MailStore Gateway does not offer any high availability capabilities, but there are a few options to provide redundancy depending on your requirements and technical abilities…

🔗Overview of the options and risks MailStore Gateway does not offer any high availability capabilities, but there are a few options to provide redundancy depending on your requirements and technical abilities…

🔗Overview of the options and risks MailStore Gateway does not offer any high availability capabilities, but there are a few options to provide redundancy depending on your requirements and technical abilities…

MailStore Gateway includes a POP3 server as part of its proxy functionality. This feature allows access to messages in the mailbox, enabling you to inspect messages directly using a tool like curl. This is useful as it allows you to access decrypted messages…

All messages in MailStore are within an individual user's archive, each user has a separate archive, so for example my incoming messages could end up in any/all of these depending on where the messages come from:…

Have you ever wondered if you can run MailStore Gateway in a load-balanced or high-availability configuration? MailStore Gateway was not designed with this in mind, but that doesn't mean it can't be done. Is this really needed though? In most situations, probably not. Keep in mind that journal messages are just e-mails, and e-mail uses SMTP which includes retry mechanisms. Brief outages will not cause you problems (but screwing up the gateway configuration will!)…

If you are moving MailStore to a server in another office, a cloud-hosted virtual machine or leased server, or have a substantial amount of data then it can take a significant amount of time to move MailStore's database to another server and it is important to understand what is happening during a migration if you don't follow the official steps…

You cannot copy all of MailStore's databases while the server is running, but if you're comfortable with the command line, we can pre-stage the bulk of the database using rclone so that the required downtime is minimal…

You cannot copy all of MailStore's databases while the server is running, but if you're comfortable with the command line, we can pre-stage the bulk of the database using robocopy so that the required downtime is minimal…