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Is there a way in scalix for an admin to read a user's mailbox. I cannot figure this out. As a rule the admin doe sNOT have the password to the user's account.

This is an important big-brother requirement

A couple of thoughts:

1. export a mailbox as a pst? Is that possible?
2. some command line to make a copy of a mailbox as a folder to another user's mailbox

Any thoughts??

It is possible to read another user's mailbox using the mboxadmin capabilities and an IMAP client.
Have a search around for mboxadmin. Have a look at the 'care and feeding of your bayes' on the wiki, it uses the same technique.

Hi!

Another way could be, your mailbox be exported to a file, using sxmboxexp and then this
file could be imported using sxmboximp to a new account to view the mails in this new
account.

Of course for sxmboximp/sxmboxexp you need to be logged in root.

Thanks,
Subir

I figured out the smbexport / sxmboxinport thing and it works well. The one probelm is that I cant put the inbox of the user into a subnfolder of my mailbox.

I issued the command:

sxmboximp -a "FILE" -f F-0000000001 -t "targetfolder" -u "my name"


This command created a folder called target but then dumped all of the contents of the inbox (F-0000000000000001) into my inbox. am I missing something?

Hi!

I exported the mailbox of user07 on my test machine to a file user07.data, then I tried to
import the data in file user07.data in user06 mailbox using the command below:

From man page of sxmboximp:

-t folder-name, --target folder-name
Use this option to specify a top-level folder to hold the restored items. If not
specified then the restored items will maintain the same folder structure that is
present in the archive file. The top-level folder specified will be created if it does
not already exist.

this means that the target folder name would be top-level folder name, next when we
specify a target folder name, it will be created only when it does not exist.

I used the above command, although a folder by name "User-07-Inbox" gets created but
the mails got imported to Inbox itself and not to User-07-Inbox.

Thanks,
Subir

So that is a bug then? Looks like you had the same problem.

Hi!

We already have a bug open for this issue:
http://bugzilla.scalix.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14632

Thanks,
Subir