Archiving Mail

Craig Daters craig at WESTPRESS.COM
Mon Jan 10 19:50:36 GMT 2005


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Martin Hepworth wrote:
>> 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....
>>
>> --
>>
>> Craig Daters (craig at westpress.com)
>> Systems Administrator
>> West Press Print Communications
>>
>
> Craig
>
> you could get the users into MailWatch so they can release their own
> email from within the DB...you'd have to keep the uncompressed emails
> around for more days though as the MW interace only deals with the
> rfc-822 format emails, not uncompresseing/extracting on the fly.
>
> The MW stuff can (and will) look into the users table to allow non-admin
>  users to check their own email for spam etc...
>
I do have other users set up to check their quarantined stuff, and I had
considered storing the email in the DB, but was unsure how this would
affect the load on our server as we process almost 2GB of mail a month,
(due to all the file attachments/jobs that we receive to print...) and
the resulting DB would be almost as large for the few users that I want
to keep mail around for.

If I don't need to be worried about it though, I'm all over it :)

--
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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