Dear Experts Is it possible for an administrator user to read the mails of other users using IMAP protocol? I have done it using WebDAV, and I think this is also possible using web services, but I dont know about IMAP. Requirement is this: I am writing an IMAP mail client and I want to traverse through directories of all users. I have the list of users with me but no password. But I have the aministrator user details (and password) with me. How can I do an impersonation via IMAP? thanks

Hi, If you are using exchange 2003 SP2 or exchange 2007/10 you can user the journaling for these user, have a look into these articles : http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa996699(EXCHG.65).aspx , http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Exchange-Server-2007-Using-Journaling-Rules.html , http://www.petri.co.il/enable_envelope_journaling_in_exchange.htm, do let us know if more details are required. Ripu Daman Mina | MCSE 2003 & MCSA Messaging

Thanks, I went through the journaling mechanism (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=64852) but this does not seem to be a straight forward solution. This involves forwarding every email to a particular folder and then fetching from it (which may not be acceptable as per some organization policy). Any other thoughts? Or am I mising something in journaling ? thanks

Hi, In case of journaling the user how will receive mail will have access on the mailbox but on the server end & user for which it enable will not notice this at all & its a exchange feature, I don't know ur company policy but I thing its will working fine in you scenario. Ripu Daman Mina | MCSE 2003 & MCSA Messaging

Hi, In case of journaling the user how will receive mail will have access on the mailbox but on the server end & user for which it enable will not notice this at all & its a exchange feature, I don't know ur company policy but I thing its will working fine in you scenario. Ripu Daman Mina | MCSE 2003 & MCSA Messaging

thanks for the quick reply, any other thoughts about how to achieve this?

Hi, Which version of exchange is it?? if its exchange 2010 then we can user discovery mailbox for this purpose : http://www.howexchangeworks.com/2009/10/discovery-mailbox-in-exchange-2010.html, http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd335072.aspxRipu Daman Mina | MCSE 2003 & MCSA Messaging

Right now I have exchange 2003, but will be upgrading to exchange 2007 later. So the solution should work for both :(

Hi, If you are using exchange 2003 SP2 or exchange 2007/10 you can user the journaling for these user, have a look into these articles : http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa996699(EXCHG.65).aspx , http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Exchange-Server-2007-Using-Journaling-Rules.html , http://www.petri.co.il/enable_envelope_journaling_in_exchange.htm, do let us know if more details are required. Ripu Daman Mina | MCSE 2003 & MCSA Messaging if I enable journal or discovery-mailbox features 1) will the mails going there preserve the user directory information also? For example can I distinguish between a mail in SentItems and a mail in 'work' folder? 2) Will there be two copies of mails always ? One in user mail box and one in journal folder? thanks

Hi, The mail in sent item will have user ID as in from field & rest will have the same in to field & there will be two copy of mail but there is not journal folder it will a mailbox to which these copy will be forwarded.Ripu Daman Mina | MCSE 2003 & MCSA Messaging

I was searching for IMAP impersonation for administrator in msexchange and came across these interesting links http://forum.rebex.net/questions/45/imap-impersonation http://www.rebex.net/secure-mail.net/faq.aspx#exchange2003