Am 29.01.21 um 17:01 schrieb Odhiambo Washington:
Between the MTA and the IMAP4 who should be responsible for archiving? I think if you need to keep copies of e-mails, it's better done at the MTA level. Deliver one copy to the recipient and another copy to the archive. IMHO.
off topic at dovecot but
here is a solution with homebrew postfix/dovecot blog
https://blog.sys4.de/mailarchiv-mit-dovecot-und-postfix-sortiert-nach-datum-...
a good idea is to use maildir for archive / every mail is a file ,you can hash too, depend on how much you have to store you need a storage which should work over years
however you should/prefer use a prof solution
something like
cause of legally reasons
read
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_archiving
On Fri, 29 Jan 2021 at 17:12, Rupert Gallagher <ruga@protonmail.com <mailto:ruga@protonmail.com>> wrote:
Hello, I would like to know what is your strategy for legally compliant long term archival of e-mails (up to 10 years). Thank you-- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223 "Oh, the cruft.", grep ^[^#] :-)
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