archiving mail

[RickC]

Hello,

Does anyone archive scalix to a 3rd party archiver? I am trying to do journaling / real time archiving.

The only docs I have are page 171 of the admin guide. It refers to a script -

fork:/bin/archive_script.sh
The archiver forks the script and communicates with SMTP using stdin and stdout to
the script.

This script is not on my system (11.4.4, running RHEL4). Is this script useful for journaling? Or is there something obvious I am missing?

Thanks.

Rick

[Jakes]

Hey Rick,

We are also looking at mail archiving and have Scalix archiving to MailArchiva successfully in a test environment. I did not make use of an archive script, I simply added the listening address and port of the archive server to general.cfg and started the Scalix Archive Server service

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# Archive mail to MailArchiva
ARCHIVE=inet:archiveserver.domain.com:8091

Not sure if this is what you were looking for, let me know if didn’t get the question properly.

Jakes

[RickC]

Hi Jakes,

That looks great, does it archive messages to user folders in the achiver? I'm not familar with MailArchiva, I use MessageSolution.

Thanks.

Rick

[Jakes]

Hey Rick.

No folder structures are kept, you need to use the search function in MailArchiva. They have a community version but importing legacy mail, exporting and retrieving mail is really cumbersome compared to the paid version. I have a trial installed.

What is Message Solution like? I am still looking at various options.

Jakes

[RickC]

Currently with MessageSolution I am running a nightly scheduled archive. It archives all users and folders with the mail in to each folder. Each user logging onto the archiver to access old mail has their complete folder structure with all the mail from each folder.

I'm thinking once I do journaling that will change.

have you tried the "bcc" way to archive scalix?

ARCHIVE=bcc:archive@example.com
This forwards to a designated “bcc” mailbox created solely for archiving purposes a
blind (bcc) copy of every message that is sent. You create this mailbox before adding
this parameter. We recommend it be on a separate computer because archive files
use significant memory space.

Seems like MessageSolution isn't too hot for Scalix anymore (is anyone?). So I'm not sure I'd recommend it for Scalix systems.

[Jakes]

Not yet and thanks for the tip.