Spyros, Investigate Outlook's Archive feature - I think it will do what you want - maintain pst file sizes. Unfortunately, it archives to another pst file, so all you really have done is split it into two files. At least you can save that pst to a CD and they can have their 'archives' off line.
Rob :-) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ward Durossette Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 10:25 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [xmail] Re: imap ? or something relevant ? Spyros, I needed to archive messages to comply with Sarb-Ox, and use XMail with the POP3 message store. I use a filter that copies every message to an archive folder as it comes into XMail. This is a little different, I think than your problem. My archival process involves saving every message for history, your archival seems to be aging messages out of the mailbox for the purpose of size control. If I understand your problem correctly, the size of the outlook.pst files on the user's machines is causing you grief. You are looking for a way to store messages server side, and limit the size of the user's mailboxes. I am not sure that a POP solution will work. Because of the way POP is designed, your users must take extra efforts to not remove them from the server. And these efforts can be undone quite easily, causing the messages to download to the client. Then you are right were you are now. As a client side solution, using POP as the protocol, I am thinking of some kind of program/script/outlook rule that would process the client side mail store and copy/delete old message to the server archival location. Sounds messy. IMAP seems like your best option as a server side message store. You can control the size of the mailboxes, and the messages stay on the server, allowing you to perform processing on them. ward Spyros Tsiolis wrote: >Hello people, > >I am trying to find a way to archive messages on the xmail server side >(xmail v1.17 running on linux). > >I have big-time problems with staff owning big, really BIG mailboxes. >It affects everything; from the performance of each workstation to >Outlook 2k behaving erratically. > >Any help would be greatly appreciated (as always). > >s. > > > >----- >"I merely function as a channel that filters music through the chaos of >noise" >- Vangelis > >_________________________________________________________________ >FREE pop-up blocking with the new MSN Toolbar - get it now! >http://toolbar.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200415ave/direct/01/ > >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the >body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the >line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- Ward Durossette Director Of Technical Solutions Community Banking Systems 1412 Main Street - 14th Floor Dallas, Texas 75202 http://www.combanksys.com (web) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (email) 214-752-3444 (work phone) 877-353-6271 (fax) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
