On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 11:17 +0100, Daniel Watts wrote:
Digging up this thread from 2007. Just had another conversation in my company about how to spread old non-accessed files to cheaper slower storage.
Is this now feasible? I noticed dbox is now v2.0 but see no reference to virtual folders or auto-archiving etc.
Multi-dbox is in v2.0, but single-dbox is already in v1.1! You can configure it to use two directories, e.g.:
mail_location = dbox:~/dbox:ALTPATH=/cheapstorage/%h
v2.0 implements dbox somewhat better, but v1.1's version should work well enough too. v1.1 just creates a pretty useless dbox.index file and also writes (for backup) flag changes to dbox files once in a while.
Moving old messages can be done using expire plugin: http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Expire#Alternative_dbox_directory_expiration or you can do it manually with mv command as well.
With the above configuration there's no need to use virtual mailboxes.