[OT maybe]Email Archiving

[Martin Marcher <martin@marcher.name>]

Hello,

I'm looking for a solution for email archiving

the priorities I have for it are the following:

# reliability
# offline backups (that'll probably be scripted)
# availability
# speed as the least important

I guess every decent box that is out there does that, but I'm a bit unsure
on the software part- I've been using cyrus in the past but I want this to
be as simple as possible.

This will really be archiving, so the only operation that will really be
done is  droping old mails there and searching for them once in a while.

First i was thinking about just using cyrus and a few system users (I want
as few dependencies as possible) but then again cyrus seems so bloated on
the other hand googling for email archiving leads me to appliances with
open end pricing which in turn suggests that there's more to it than simply
providing storage that is not the main imap server and is just there to
search for stuff.

I guess I'm totally on the wrong track or just got confused by all the
buzzwords certain searches throw at you. I'm open to any suggestion about
how you do archiving (buying one of those multi thousand euro appliances is
not an option)

thanks
martin


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