Archiving Mail

[James A. Pattie]

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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.

Or you use Mozilla Thunderbird and import the mbox file into their "Local
Folders" and then use the nice gui to search, print, etc.

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James A. Pattie
james at sudora.com

Linux -- SysAdmin / Programmer
Sudora, LLC
http://www.sudora.com/

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