[Dovecot] keep users from deleting email
Adam Williams
awilliam at mdah.state.ms.us
Mon Apr 14 18:28:18 EEST 2008
Bill Cole wrote:
>
> Um, really?
>
> I've had a little experience with SOx, HIPAA, GLBA, and Federal
> E-Discovery compliance projects, and I've never heard that SOx applied
> at all to state agencies or that it requires anyone to archive all
> email forever. In fact, doing so as a matter of normal policy may be a
> very bad idea under the E-Discovery rules. I'm certainly no lawyer,
> but your management may want to find better ones than they seem to
> have...
>
Well it doesn't, but management wants us to archive all electronic data
forever in a fashion that is compliant to that law.
>
> You definitely need to be aware of the fact that one of the downsides
> of mbox is performance and resource demands as the mbox files grow.
What do you consider a large mbox? We have users with single mbox files
of 3G and their mail loads up fine. We are using Seamonkey's email
client and it makes a local index file of all the message
to/from/subject/date/etc so it loads mail very quickly, pretty much
instantaneous. One thing I don't like about Maildir is that it keeps
each message as a seperate file, so you'll end up with directories with
20k+ files and run into glob problems, and with ext3, you have all these
sub 4kb messages still taking up a 4k block on the disk, wasting disk space.
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