Archiving Mail

[James A. Pattie]

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Craig Daters wrote:
| 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 :)

Yup, I just found out how to do it yesterday before I saw this thread. :)

It's currently a manual process, but the instructions were really easy.  I ran
across it in the Thunderbird FAQ section.

|
| I will deffinately have to remember this, thanks James.


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James A. Pattie
james at sudora.com

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

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