Archiving Mail

[Craig Daters]

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Wess Bechard wrote:
>   Have you considered using IMAP for your email?  All your mail is kept
> on the server, so you can keep it as long as you want.  I have a few
> thousand emails over many months stored right now.
>
> I am using Mailscanner, Postfix, Courier-IMAP, Courier-POP, Cyrus-SASL,
> ClamAV, and SpamAssassin.
>
> Our mail server allows you to use either IMAP or POP.
>
> If you want to know more, I am usually around on the #mailscanner
> chatroom on IRC.
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> On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 11:50, Craig Daters wrote:
>
>> /Hello Everyone. We have been using MailScanner for a couple of years
>>now, and I must say that it is great! My company has been steadily
>>growing larger and larger, and we do business with quite a few people
>>via email. Our clients, upon seeing some sort of proof from us, will
>>give us an okay to print via email, and the need to archive mail for a
>>sort of paper trail when disputes arise has always been in the back of
>>our mind.
>>
>>We have about 4 or 5 people who deal with these clients, and they hang
>>onto their mail for a couple of months before deleting everything.
>>Sometimes we instances come up where if we had the email, we would have
>>gotten paid for the job, but unfortunately was deleted.
>>
>>I have been trying to work out a solution using MailScanner to archive a
>>months worth of mail, tar it up and burn these off to CD or something.
>>
>>We have one MailServer, sitting on the Internet side of our firewall,
>>that all of our 20+ employees who have email, check via POP3.
>>
>>Installed along side of MailScanner is MailWatch, SpamAssassin, ClamAV,
>>ViSpan, and SquirrelMail
>>
>>I am curious to know if anyone is currently, or has considered, setting
>>up some sort of archiving action and how you may have approached it?
>>Does anyone have any thoughts or guidance.
>>
>>I have looked through the FAQ's and am working my mind through the
>>"Archive Mail =" configuration so as to set up some sort of streamlined
>>process to maybe backup mail for these 4 or 5 users weekly, then all the
>>weeklys into a monthly, montly's onto a CD. as well as some way to
>>retrieve and view the messages easily to find the particular mail.
>>
>>Any thoughts, ideas, or redirects? Any help or comments would be welcomed.
>>
>>Thank you,
>>
>>Craig D.
>>
>>--
>>
>>Craig Daters (craig at westpress.com)
>>Systems Administrator
>>West Press Print Communications
>>
>>1663 West Grant Road
>>Tucson, Arizona 85705
>>(520) 624-4939
>>(520) 624-2715 fax
>>/
>>/ www.westpress.com  <http://www.westpress.com>
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I have considered IMAP, but I don't know enough about it to make an
informed decision to use it. I have only ever used POP3.

I would suspect also that I might want to use Quota's for this type of
config, and I do not know much about that either. We process a couple of
gigabytes a month worth of email with all of the file attachments that
we take in, so I would be afraid of my drive filling up too soon.

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Craig Daters (craig at westpress.com)
Systems Administrator
West Press Print Communications

1663 West Grant Road
Tucson, Arizona 85705
(520) 624-4939
(520) 624-2715 fax

www.westpress.com

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