Joseph wrote: > Sander Smeenk wrote: >> Quoting Joseph ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >> >>> With flat files, your friend would be grep. With maildir you would need >>> a mail client, which might be ok, unless we are talking hundreds of >>> thousands of messages. >> Thing is, to get a specific message i have to know the exact maildir >> filename or i have to untar the complete archive and go from there... >> Which isn't all that bad if you are talking about your private mailsetup >> with a couple of mailinglists, but company wide this can be a real pain. >> >> With mbox format you can usually just zless or zgrep through the gzipped >> mbox. Even cooler, mutt is able to read gzipped mboxes!. Mbox can easily >> be searched through with numerous tools from the cli too... >> >> So i'd say... Go for mbox format :-) >> > > Thanks for all the comments. > > The format I am using is neither maildir or mbox, but just plain files. > Which means I have to use grep to do anything with them. > > One thing that bothers me, is how I would get to the attachments, if > need be. A person would need a perl mime tool or something to break them > out. > > I like the idea of tar'ing them up every day or week and saving the disk > space. > > I always have been leery of mbox, because if it gets corrupted, than you > are in trouble although that should not really happen with todays file > systems. > > regards, Joseph > >
A little off-topic from the original, but what methods are people using to even begin archiving e-mails? I've read into the Exim specification on unseen deliveries, but I don't know if it will archive local deliveries (ones that are user to user on the same system). It also seemed a bit cumbersome to build maps of user's to archive, but maybe theres a way to specify lists of entire domains to archive (to/from a certain domain maybe) Any hints on that aspect of archiving? Regards; Brent Jones -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
