[Dovecot] Online backup with dovecot
Hi!
Do you guys/girls (whichever you prefer) know if it's possible (i.e. in some semitransparent/easy way) to incorporate an online backup system? If the mail is older than a set amount of days it gets compressed.
I want my mail storage size to shrink but on the other hand I want to keep the mails I get and have them easily readable :)
I'm thinking of symlinks and some kind of gzip fuse filesystem... Please save me ,)
/yosh
On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, Johan 'yosh' Marklund wrote:
Hi!
Do you guys/girls (whichever you prefer) know if it's possible (i.e. in some semitransparent/easy way) to incorporate an online backup system? If the mail is older than a set amount of days it gets compressed.
I want my mail storage size to shrink but on the other hand I want to keep the mails I get and have them easily readable :)
I'm thinking of symlinks and some kind of gzip fuse filesystem... Please save me ,)
You could always compress *everything* - I have vague recollections of the ability to gzip the files in a live Maildir, as discussed at e.g. http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2005-June/007703.html .
-- Asheesh.
-- Use only in a well-ventilated area.
I apologize if this is on the wiki or in the documentation, but I can't get to either website for some reason right now.
What's a good way to set up mail lists where everyone@mydomain.com would relay to everyone in my company? I have a virtual user setup using MySQL as the backend using Dovecot 1.0.something.
Thanks, Tom
Tom wrote:
I apologize if this is on the wiki or in the documentation, but I can't get to either website for some reason right now.
What's a good way to set up mail lists where everyone@mydomain.com would relay to everyone in my company? I have a virtual user setup using MySQL as the backend using Dovecot 1.0.something.
I take it you don't want to go to the (relatively small) effort of installing a mailing list manager like Mailman.
I would say a good solution which would also save you disk space would be a shared folder.
Have "everyone" deliver to its own mailbox, and give everyone access to it via a Namespace.
There are some fiddly bits to play with if you want everyone to have their own status flags, but I believe this is all covered in the wiki - and if not, in this list.
HTH.
-- Curtis Maloney cmaloney@cardgate.net
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Asheesh Laroia
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Curtis Maloney
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Johan 'yosh' Marklund
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Tom