email archival to reduce mailbox size

[Liutauras Adomaitis]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 8:30 AM, Geoff Nordli <geoffn at gnaa.net> wrote:
> On Monday, April 16, 2012 08:18:55 AM Liutauras Adomaitis wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 10:09 PM, Geoff Nordli <geoffn at gnaa.net> wrote:
>> > I have a client using the Bynari Outlook connector, which uses local
>> > ost files to store data.
>> >
>> > OST/PST files have performance issues with larger files (greater than
>> > 5GB).
>> >
>> > I am not looking for something that archives all emails at the smtp
>> > connector level, but something that is more at the mailbox level, and
>> > maybe based on the mailbox size or date.
>> >
>> > Deleting the email isn't an option since they need to keep it.
>> >
>> > Any suggestions on how I can reduce the size of the mailbox.
>> >
>> > I am looking for an open source solution.
>> >
>> > Maybe I just write a script that moves email from the "live" server to
>> > an "archive" server.  They can access the archive server via imap,
>> > instead of the bynari connector.
>> >
>> > thanks,
>> >
>> > Geoff
>>
>> Why don't you use outlook native archiving tool? You can move all
>> files to local pst file.
>>
>> Liutauras
>
> Hi Liutauras.
>
> I would hope to stay away from PSTs because they are a major pain to manage
> and they suffer from corruption issues.
>
> I want everything to stay on the server where I can manage the data properly.
>
> thanks,
>
> Geoff


We are using Outlook tools for that, but it would be interesting to
here wether there are more elegant solutions.

Liutauras