On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 4:10 PM, James <wirel...@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:

> A nice system wide backup strategy with around 2 dozen
> thunderbird clients, is also part of the strategy. So
> first users try to retrieve their lost emails, then
> ask an admin...... I like a separate backup system for email
> not part of the regular backup system.....

pop3 is easy to backup, just copy the ~/.thundebird folder
(%APPDATA%/thunderbird on Windows). You can use rscync, rsnapshot or a
commercial program like CrashPlan. Another option is to provide an
imap server with Zarafa which allows users to restore e-mails (1) and
(brick) level backups server side (2)

1) 
http://doc.zarafa.com/6.40/User_Manual/en-US/html/_restoring_deleted_items.html
2) 
http://doc.zarafa.com/6.40/Administrator_Manual/en-US/html/_backup_amp_restore.html

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