Re: [OT maybe]Email Archiving
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On 02/18/08 10:56, Martin Marcher wrote:
> 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)
You aren't giving us enough information.
Is this for *you*, for a SOHO, a small company, or -- since you are
using cyrus -- for 10,000 college students?
IMAP, I presume? Flat files, MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc?
- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
PETA - People Eating Tasty Animals
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