Archiving Mail

Craig Daters craig at WESTPRESS.COM
Mon Jan 10 19:09:04 GMT 2005


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Julian Field wrote:
> Craig Daters wrote:
>
>> Martin Hepworth wrote:
>>
>>> Craig
>>>
>>> I do the entire outside email traffic.
>>>
>>> tar it up after three days, then manually burnt to CD once I get enough
>>> to fit onto a CD.
>>>
>>> If you make the "Archive Mail = users.rule" you can populate the rule
>>> file with the users you want to archive.
>>>
>>> I then have a script that's called by cron to tar.gz up the
>>> directories..
>>>
>>>
>> Thanks Martin,
>>
>> This gives me an idea of how to start a backup script. I do not want to
>> back up all of it, as this would be to big. I only want to back up like
>> 4 or 5 users email is all. Then be able to restore it somewhere to be
>> able to find a particular message, preferably from a windows machine as
>> no one other than myself knows how to use Linux....
>>
> Use a ruleset to only archive the mail for a few users, and archive each
> of them into a separate mbox file. See the comment above the "Archive
> Mail" setting for info on this. An mbox file is, more or less, a plain
> old text file containing all the messages archived into that file. If
> you back these up into a .tgz file somewhere, your Windows staff can use
> Winzip to open up the archive and then use any old text editor (or even
> Word if they must!) and search the text file for relevant
> keywords/dates/whatever.
>
> The Windows users will have to get used to seeing the full headers of
> each message, but they will soon get used to it. And it's enormously
> easier and faster to search than most other ways of hunting through
> messages in a large mailbox.
>
This is what I was more or less leaning towards, I wasn't sure if there
was a more elegant way to go about it....

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

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