On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, tsuraan wrote:
None of the programs we've looked at (mostly fetchmail, I can't remember the alternatives anymore) have very good control over when emails are removed from the IMAP server. Our requirements (imposed by corporate legal...) are that the archiving machine not delete messages from the email server until _after_ they have been archived to tape, and that emails stay on the archiving machine's hard drives for a certain amount of time for quick retrieval.
Thanks for your input. My recommendation for accomplishing this echos what another poster has already said: you probably would be better off having a tap on the mail delivery stream than pulling messages from the IMAP server.
The problem with pulling messages from the IMAP server, as you propose, is that it basically is a polling-type activity. So messages can be deleted without ever making its way to the archive.
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