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Does sxmboxexp produce standard mbox files?

Interested in using the output from this to produce an XML based archive.
There are several tools out there to produce XML from an mbox archive already. Put together a few XSLT sheets and we have a poor mans archive, with internal google search its searchable !

No, they are a proprietary binary format.

Use the archiver, and send a copy of your amil to some other mailbox that you can manipulate as needed. Or, just use the archiver itself, if that'll meet your needs.

Kev.

Sorry my view of an archive is an open format. An Archive can not use proprietary formats if its to live a long time.

I see the API documentation has lots of info in creating new items, but don't see anything about reading whats there.
I stand corrected - at the top of the API document there is info about accessing the mailbox

Are there Any other sources for info about the API Like java code samples using Axis 2 or something like that?


The problem with just using the archiving feature is that it keeps everything, and is missing the organization that a user imposes. Everything we do here is a project, people organize items in a their own project folders. The archiver would not know what message goes with what project. I could see the archiver tool being useful to us if a user could submit a already existing folder to the archive. Like when the project is done.

Ideas?

The archiver just sends mail to a defined address via smtp. It's meant as a way for you to see every message that crosses your server. It can send those to a user on your Scalix server, or somewhere else. Heck, start a Gmail address for it. But do note that it'll fill up pretty fast.

As far as keeping the organization, why not use a public folder to store the data? You could then dump the data as a PST or whatever.