[Cialug] Email Archiving

L. V. Lammert lvl at omnitec.net
Tue Oct 12 16:54:19 CDT 2010


At 07:31 AM 10/7/2010, you wrote:

>This solution would not capture emails within the email system 
>unless you do some mucking about with localhost (which is often not 
>possible).  If you're archiving for legal reasons, it would not be sufficient.

The do not wish to spend the budget for a "legal" archiving system, 
.. but, FYI, it looks like imapsync is going to do the trick:

 > Email clients are set to never delete email on the server [required]
 > Use imapsync to pull any new email from the hosted email every night
 > Rsync nightly to append new emails to the 'archive' (NAS box)
 > On Saturday, a delete job purges deleted emails on the host over 30 days old

We're doing test runs right now and will be sync'ing to the local 
server this week.

         Lee



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