Kolab Mail archiving - software, methods, experiences?

[Carsten Burghardt]

Quoting "Christian Rößler" <Roessler at FuH-E.de>:

> Hallo everyone,
>
> I am in need for mail archiving, that means that every incoming and
> outgoing mail has to be archived somewhere.
>
> Now I am a bit overwhelmed with all the possibilities, and so I want to
> ask the list in which ways this has already been solved, which software
> (if so) is being used, and so on.
>
> Several possibilities spring to my mind:
>
> - postfix (main.cf) always_bcc=archiv at kolab.lokal.tld. Funny, but not
> unexpected (as each mail goes three times through postfix, if I am not
> mistaken) is that each mail goes threefold to the archive / gets
> tripled. Does anyone know an easy way around that?
>
> - has anyone integrated Octant Opensources OMA Open Mail Archive
> <http://octant.org> into Kolab, and if so, which are the experiences?
>
> - or perhaps Inovox-Mailarchivierungssoftware,
> <http://www.inovox.de/email-archivierung>,
> <http://sourceforge.net/projects/emailarchiving/>? Experiences?

As that is basically my baby it definitely works with Kolab ;-)
You register the proxy in your postfix and use e.g. Alfresco as  
archive. Of course it all depends on what you want to do with your  
archive (only accessible for admins vs. users, legal or research  
issues, ...).

> - Or perhaps another way? Another software, proxy or more simple
> solution? In short, how is this solved elsewhere?
>


Carsten