Email Archiving Solution

[cosmorphis]

Hello everyone! Have to say, Host Gator is top notch! Been with them for about 4 years now.

Well, I have a client who I setup a filter in EXIM to copy all emails (ingoing and outgoing) into archive@website.com. Obviously, it's filling up fast, and at the end of the year, I will do a download for a local backup, but I also know he is going to want to keep it live. I know he is going to want to be able to search email from whatever date. I have noticed Horde getting sluggish, with all his archived email. I am just wondering if anyone has any suggestions on optimizing this and/or archiving it. My current thought is to move all his archived email from this year, into archive2010@website.com, so he can then fill up archive@website.com for the new year. This all seems backwards, and 'non-standard', and so I am looking for any and all suggestions.

Thanks!!!

[cosmorphis]

The product from MailStore looks really good. It connects easily with EXIM, and is made for archiving. I don't know if my client would want to pony up the money, but I guess if it get's out of hand, then he'll have to decide what he wants to do. I'm gonna see if I can't find an open source solution that is similar ...

[weserver]

or you could just create a gmail account for the customer, auto-copying all mail to gmail. I'm sure it won't fill up any day soon ?

[weserver]

p.s. could you elaborate on how to set up these filters in exim ?

[cosmorphis]

Originally Posted by weserver

p.s. could you elaborate on how to set up these filters in exim ?

I basically followed this tutorial.

http://www.linuxweblog.com/blogs/san...ls-cpanel-exim

It's pretty easy. You just put:

if first_delivery
   and ("$h_to:, $h_cc:, $h_from:" contains "@domain.tld")
then
   unseen deliver "monitor@domain.tld"
endif

You can modify that part to fit your needs. Click on the link to see where and what file to edit.