Comments on: How do you guys archive your email?

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:28:36 +0000

There is an easer method to record and archive Gmail. You can use a hardware solution to automatically do this task for you. Like the freedom9 Internet content recorder . Simply open and log into your Gmail account, and the icr does the rest. It will log all emails in your inbox, plus it will record any incoming and out going emails to your Gmail account. You can still backup your email to a single file if that is easer for you.

By: Michael Larocco

Michael Larocco — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:07:55 +0000

In our Exchange enterprise environment for email archiving we use archive manager exchange management soluton.

This tool captures all messages to a centralized and compressed database storing only a single copy of all messages and attachments. This can not only save a lot of diskspace but it’s also a good way for keeping email secutity compliance.

By: Big Dan

Big Dan — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 12:28:57 +0000

I’ve used Gmail for some time now, what I do is once every 6 months or so I download it all via POP into thunderbird. I then tar my thunderbird profile folder and delete it.

When thunderbird starts up again, it automatically creates a new profile.

I don’t think it’s the best system but it’s the easiest I’ve come up with.

By: Jj

Jj — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 00:56:18 +0000

I used to archive my local inbox in pre-gmail ages.
After reading horror stories about deleted gmail accounts, I created a second gmail account.
On my main account i configured pop, and on my archive gmail i set it up to download mail from a pop server and make it point to my main account

So now I have my main gmail, and a second gmail which is up to date with my main one in case of nightmares

I’m still to download that to my hard drive or do the same thing with a different provider

By: DJ Saltarelli

DJ Saltarelli — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 23:01:51 +0000

Look into a project called MimeDefang. This very cool tool could do things like what you want. In particular, I think it would remove the attachments to messages and replace them with a URL to the file. Sounds exactly like what you want to do.

/djs

By: Richard

Richard — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:26:54 +0000

Keep your attachments, storage is cheap.

By: Rob J. Caskey

Rob J. Caskey — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 12:58:26 +0000

I’m straight-up gmail. I thought I’d get around to setting up at least POP (and now IMAP) but honestly I’ve not had any reason to. I did notice Evolution sports a handy dandy strip-attachments option these days.

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 12:05:35 +0000

I run an IMAP server and use offlineimap to archive it from a number of locations. I also use rsnapshot in conjunction with one of my fetches, which protects me against loss due to human error rather than disk failure. That might sound a bit extreme, but you can run an IMAP server on your own desktop and use offlineimap to “clone” it to other places, you don’t necessarily need your own mailserver.

By: David Mills

David Mills — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 11:08:11 +0000

To be perfectly honest, I just copy my mail folder to an external hard drive every now and then. Since I don’t have work based mail (separate account, backed up by the company), I find this more than sufficient.

By: Zebob

Zebob — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 23:13:55 +0000

Now I use GMail IMAP with evolution 2.20. There is a brand new function to archive mails and parameters in a tar.gz
I have no idea for your attachment problem.