Archives Qs

[Mouseclone]

When archiving messages pth /mail-archive/<date>/<time>/ will all email from the setting be put into that folder and will it be listed as mail stores themselves? ie /mail-archive/<date>/<time>/leroy's mail/ and /mail-archive/<date>/<time>/bob's mail/

also is it possible for when an email is deleted to go into a deleted archive? In other words say i delete an email from bob and it was of a slanderous nature to someone else in the company. I delete the email and bob deletes the email but someone saw it in bob's inbox and told HR. As IT I would have to produce said email to them, even more so if there is a lawsuit happening and needed deleted mail for evidence.

Maybe instead of deleting email it hides them so that the email stays in the store until regular archive moves it out? Something of that nature to protect the company in the case something like that were to happen.

Thanks for any feed back

[Valerion]

It will be put in mail-archive/date/<filename> where <filename> is the timestamp of the message plus a sequence number (in case there more arriving at the same time). The messages in the archive will stay there until you delete them.

In Scalix 11 SBE and EE there is a "Recover Deleted Items" function, where you can recover mails the user deleted. The best place to look is the archive, however.

[jaga0]

Where can I find out more about this feature?

[Mouseclone]

So when a user deletes a file it puts the file in the archive and does not delete it from the system? Just want to make sure that i have that correct. Also the sequence number is part of the file name <filename>-001 <filename>-002 kinda like that correct? and that is only if 2 or more message arrive at the same time.

That should work for what i need. Straight mime format will compress rather nicely at the end of 6 months as well. Could keep records for a long time that way.

Thank you

[Valerion]

So when a user deletes a file it puts the file in the archive and does not delete it from the system?

If you are using archiving, the email gets archived when it arrives at the mail server, before it gets delivered into he mailbox, and after that Scalix ignores it.

Just want to make sure that i have that correct. Also the sequence number is part of the file name <filename>-001 <filename>-002 kinda like that correct? and that is only if 2 or more message arrive at the same time.

Here's an example from my server, in the directory /var/opt/mail-archive/2007-01-04 (I changed the location a bit)

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-rw-rw-rw-  1 scalix scalix    2299 Jan  4 13:14 13:14:36+0200.03753.1
-rw-rw-rw-  1 scalix scalix    3174 Jan  4 13:17 13:17:14+0200.03753.0
-rw-rw-rw-  1 scalix scalix   24834 Jan  4 13:33 13:33:03+0200.03753.0
-rw-rw-rw-  1 scalix scalix   29262 Jan  4 13:45 13:45:17+0200.03753.0
-rw-rw-rw-  1 scalix scalix    2169 Jan  4 13:58 13:58:46+0200.03753.0
-rw-rw-rw-  1 scalix scalix    2157 Jan  4 13:58 13:58:46+0200.03753.1
-rw-rw-rw-  1 scalix scalix    2153 Jan  4 13:58 13:58:47+0200.03753.0
-rw-rw-rw-  1 scalix scalix    2973 Jan  4 14:22 14:22:54+0200.03753.0

[Mouseclone]

many many thanks. we stay compliant while running a linux mail systems. One more M$ server out the door.