Archiving Mail

[Craig Daters]

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Wess Bechard wrote:
> Craig,
>
> I forgot to mention that all my users and quota management are done via
> MySQL.
>
> If you are worried about disk space, IMAP does build up.  You don't have
> to have everyone on IMAP, as you can put important email on IMAP and
> others on POP.
>
> On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 12:28, Craig Daters wrote:
>
>>/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
>>>>/
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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.
>>
>>--
>>
>>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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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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