Derek

Not sure if he'd be anymore happy with it, but take a look at the Google /
Postini archiving functions.

Mally
On Oct 20, 2012 5:22 PM, "System Administrator" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks Alexandre and Mally.
>
> At the start let me acknowledge that you are not part of Google, so this
> is not addressed to you, but to someone, anyone in Google who might be
> paying attention.  I also realize "this is not the place", but there does
> not seem to be any place for such an issue.  So "Hail Mary":
>
> The delegated account is is the "recommended solution" that left us
> gobsmacked.
>
> The lawyer in question is understandably very nervous about leaving a
> chain of delegated accounts as he reaches the 25GB limit in each one.  As
> one simple example -- what happens to conversations (negotiations) if he
> starts a new account?  Some of these negotiations extend over a decade.
>
> The "Google Apps Management" team need to beef up Google's mail archiving
> functions.
>
> This is a real-world need that Google already has the resources in place
> to meet (and has clients who are willing to pay), but hasn't connected the
> dots.    I refer, of course, to Google Drive, with 16TB of storage on
> offer, side-by-side with Google Apps mail limited to 25GB.  Someone needs
> to do some design and coding!
>
> I have lots of lawyers using solutions like zimbra (and exchange) for whom
> I can't, in good conscience, recommend google apps because of this
> particular (and particularly myopic) oversight (leaving aside the
> confidentiality concerns).
>
> This particular lawyer, being a specialist and not part of a big firm,
> stopped maintaining his own imap server a couple of years ago for the
> benefits of greater accessibility (and google's search function).  Google
> has him hooked with the search function for a while longer, but as we get
> to the next 25 GB limit, you can bet he'll be seriously considering a move
> back to his own server, probably a co-lo zimbra solution.  Especially if
> the "delegate account" solution proves at all awkward.
>
> I estimate Google have about 18-20 months to get a decent email archiving
> function working (or increase the 25GB limit), or lose this particular
> client.  And lose any chance of recruiting other large-scale email users
> from my base of clients.
>
> d.
>
> On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 7:03 AM, Alexandre Jacquet <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> The solution recommended in this case is to rename the account to _back
>> or _old create a new, and delegate to the user, if you want you could also
>> migrate a small percentage, it is not the best solution however it is the
>> workaround offered.
>>
>> Other solution it is, like Mally said, a 3rd party tool.
>>
>>
>>  Alexandre Jacquet
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>>
>> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 4:30 AM, Mally Mclane <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Derek
>>>
>>> I sympathise with you, we are moving to Google as a University (some
>>> 10,000 users) and we will hit this limit at some point. We can't even, as
>>> an EDU, buy extra storage and manage it centrally for apps like drive.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately though, this forum is for help on Google APIs, it is
>>> unlikely you will get help here for your problem.
>>>
>>> I believe there are 3rd party apps in the Apps Marketplace that can help
>>> someway to what you want, you may find mileage looking there.
>>>
>>> Mally
>>>  On Oct 17, 2012 12:47 AM, "DerekShaw" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> One of my clients, a lawyer, recently ran into the 25 GB limit on
>>>> Gmail.  To say we were gobsmacked to find out that google doesn't want to
>>>> keep his business is to understate the case dramatically.
>>>>
>>>> He needs his email archive searchable and in one place.  He's quite
>>>> happy to pay for the storage.  What's not acceptable is the cartoonish
>>>> "workaround" of turning his existing account into an archive account and
>>>> carrying on with a new account.  Especially when he has unused space in
>>>> google drive.
>>>>
>>>> He is not interested in the (apparently) current options of "archiving"
>>>> incoming and outgoing messages.  He wants to put is older message into a
>>>> (searchable, this is google) archive.  He'd  be happy to move 98% of his
>>>> mail to google drive and live with a smaller gmail account.
>>>>
>>>> this is, sadly, not available to him.
>>>>
>>>> And please don't suggest stripping the attachments from the emails and
>>>> putting them in the gdrive.  We went through that with Eudora, and the most
>>>> loyal of my clients gave up on that 18 years ago.
>>>>
>>>> Local storage/archiving is not an option.  This is truly a cloud user,
>>>> and we can't make it work.
>>>>
>>>> If there is a way available, or there is going to be a way available,
>>>> please let us know.
>>>>
>>>> The alternative is what drove us to google in the first place --
>>>> managing his own collaboration server.
>>>>
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