Archiving Mail

[Craig Daters]

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James A. Pattie wrote:
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> Julian Field wrote:
> | Craig Daters wrote:
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> |> 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.
>
> - --
> James A. Pattie
> james at sudora.com
>
> Linux -- SysAdmin / Programmer
> Sudora, LLC
> http://www.sudora.com/
>
I had no idea Thunderbird could do this! I knew that I liked this app
for a reason :)

I will deffinately have to remember this, thanks James.

--
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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