Hi Jerry, There is currently no solution to do what you describe. There is no "custom storage treatment" for archived mails.
I did not address nor faced this problem, thus can not really help you. Cheers, Benoit Tellier Le 09/05/2018 à 02:08, Jerry Malcolm a écrit : > I realize this is a completely off-the-wall question... but has there > been any discussion about breaking the JAMES db into multiple > databases? I have a bunch of clients, each with a bunch of accounts. > And they all want to archive all of their mail and be able to access it > through the same mail client. As the years go by, the db just keeps > growing and growing. This became acutely obvious when I was recently > forced by my server provider to migrate to newer hardware, and I > realized I had to have mail down for a long time while I transferred a > 60gB+ file across a slow connection to the new server. The db size is > also making daily backups a problem. > > The reality is that 90% of the mail is archived into 'year' folders for > each of the accounts which are basically "read-only" now. Only a > relatively small amount of mail is truly in dynamically updated > folders. If there was a way to store "/archives/2002" folders through > "/archives/2017" folders in one db and all of the other folders in > another db, it would make backup and migration a much simpler task. > > Ok, I'm pretty sure that isn't in the immediate plan. But just let me > put my vote in. Alternatively, is there any alternative to having one > ever-growing mail db? Is there some trick with the db server that can > present one logical db from multiple db files? (I know a lot about > databases... but there's still a bunch I don't know). Has anyone else > faced/addressed this problem? Or is the answer to just live with it? > > Thanks. > > Jerry > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: server-user-unsubscr...@james.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: server-user-h...@james.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: server-user-unsubscr...@james.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: server-user-h...@james.apache.org
