Hello,
Well my idea of archive folder was just a "folder in my mailbox under
inbox". You can move emails to it and from it. I would probably setup some
script that would move any emails older then 2 years to archive folder
every month for each user.
The goal is that after I move emails there there wont be that much activity
in the archive folder.
The main issue is that I need this archive folder
(/home/virtual/lucas/.Archives/ ) to be on a different server hardrives. So
maildir folder .archive needs to be either mounted in each mailbox account,
or courier imap has a setting for this. I guess this is similar to every
user having a spam folder in their inbox, but for me the archive folder
will be stored somewhere else. It might take longer to access these emails
due to over the network access, but I think the the storage savings is
worth it.
Normally I would mount /home/virtual/lucas/.Archive/
//someremote_server/lucas/.Archive/
I don't want to mount .archive folder for each user manually. I figured
courier or some other mechanism can do that for me.
Is that doable. Can courier imap do that for me?
Thanks
Lucas
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Sam Varshavchik <mr...@courier-mta.com>wrote:
> Lukasz Szybalski writes:
>
> Hello,
>> I have a courier imap running for about 2 years now, but now I'm
>> constantly running into out of space. I wanted to create an "ARCHIVE"
>> folder for all user accounts, and I wanted to point that archive folder to
>> our "nas" that would be mounted on the email server lets say at
>> /home/mail/archive/?
>>
>>
>> Is that possible? Is there any documentation on how to create a "archive"
>> folder for all imap accounts that point somewhere else out side of the
>> normal storage area?
>>
>
> You need to map out in somewhat more detail what you think that your
> archive folder should really be.
>
> If all you want is to make a backup copy of all incoming mail, there are
> various fairly easy ways to do that.
>
> But, the actual mail folders themselves, they are not some static
> entities. They change. Messages can be moved between folders in the same
> mailbox. Mail clients can actually upload new messages to the Drafts
> folder, so new mail is not the only way new messages can appear in a
> mailbox. Messages are marked as new, or deleted, by renaming their files,
> and mail clients will often move them to some trash folder.
>
> So, fundamentally, any kind of an archive setup in this situation involve
> a fairly straightforward, basic, copy operation. That's a fairly basic,
> fundamental aspect. When you get down to the bottom of it, you need to
> rsync a bunch of stuff from one place to another. You may find that an
> rsync job is all you really need. Or not.
>
>
>
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