solutions for archiving email

[William O'Higgins Witteman]

On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 08:37:13PM -0400, Dave Cramer wrote:
>What is available to archive sent and received email?

I haven't responded until now, because I am not sure what you are
asking.  I don't archive mail, so much as keep all of it, with the
exception of list messages.

That said, I am assuming you don't wish to keep it all, but you wish to
keep it all, if you take my meaning.

What I have done in the past is to keep my email folder in version
control, with a periodic commit managed by cron.  That manages keeping
everything without having to look at it.  To *find* email, you could use
shell tools (grep et al) or a mail indexer like mairix (which works
surprisingly well, though I have only used it a couple of times).

If you go the version control route, make a copy and test first - some
version control tools barf on email, especially large chunks (I have a
few Gb).  The last time I looked mercurial and git worked well,
subversion was unable to manage it.  Embarrassingly, given that I
promote its use, I can't remember if bzr works.

These days I use rdiff-backup, for all things backup/archive related.
It works, and storage space is cheaper than cognative load.

Good luck!
-- 

yours,

William

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