3 Routine Administration : 3.6 Creating email archives
1. From the GFI MailEssentials configuration console right click Email Management ► Mail Archiving and select Properties.
2. Click Mail Archiving tab and select whether to archive inbound and/or outbound emails.
Archive emails to a text file – Archives inbound and outbound emails to separate inbound and outbound text files. Email attachments are not archived when this option is selected.
Archive emails to a database – Archives all email to a Microsoft Access or SQL/SQL Server Express/MSDE database. This feature enables the archival of email attachments.
4. To exclude archiving of emails received by certain users, select the Exceptions tab, tick Do not archive emails where the sender or recipient is in the list below, click Add button and add user email address in the Email list.
5. Click OK button to finalize your configuration.
2. Expand the Roles node and select Web Server (IIS).
3. From the right pane, click on the Add Role Services button.
5. Click on the Install button to install the role services.
1. Start up Internet Services Manager, right click on the Website node, and from the popup menu select New ► Virtual Directory. The Virtual Directory Creation Wizard is displayed. Click Next to continue.
3. You now need to enter the path where the content is located. Click Browse, and folder AWI\wwwroot folder in the GFI MailEssentials installation path.
4. Next you need to set the access permissions. Check the Read and Run Scripts (such as ASP) checkboxes only. Make sure all the other checkboxes are unchecked. Click Next and on the finish page click Finish to finish the Virtual Directory Creation Wizard.
6. In the Virtual Directory tab of the Properties dialog, check the Read, Log Visits and Index this resource checkboxes. Make sure that all the other checkboxes are unchecked. In the Execute Permissions list box, select Scripts only.
7. Access the Documents tab. Remove all the default documents except for default.asp.
8. Access the Directory Security tab and click on the Edit button in the Authentication and access control group.
NOTE: Since the Archive Web Interface provides access to all the emails archived by GFI MailEssentials, it is important to setup proper authentication and security for this web server and virtual directory. There are three ways to secure the Search Interface. These are Basic Authentication, Digest and Integrated Windows Authentication. Integrated Windows Authentication is the preferred choice in an Active Directory environment, because it makes the authentication process seamless, since initially it does not prompt the users for their username or password information. Rather, it uses the current Windows user information on the client computer for authentication. If you are installing GFI MailEssentials in a DMZ, use Basic authentication.
9. Check the Integrated Windows authentication checkbox (recommended if installed on the internal network) OR Basic Authentication checkbox (if installed in the DMZ). Ensure that the Enable anonymous access checkbox is unchecked.
NOTE 1: If using Integrated Windows authentication, then authentication will occur against Active Directory. This means you do not need to configure additional users. If you use basic authentication, authentication will occur against the local user database on the machine. In this case create usernames and passwords on that local machine. For more information on securing IIS, please review the IIS documentation.
NOTE 2: Be sure you do NOT allow anonymous access.
10. Click OK to finalize your configuration.
5. Click OK to create the new Application.
7. Right click on the Anonymous Authentication option and select Disable.
8. Right click on the Windows Authentication option and select Enable.
2. Key in: http://<machine_name>/<awi_virtual_folder_name>.
Example: http://master-domain.com/awi/
The AWI will load the search page. Click on the Full Archive link in the top right corner to access the full archive page.