E-mail Archive Service

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E-mail archive service

CIS has developed a service to archive your choice of e-mail message folders and has developed a tool to read these archives. Many users have expressed their desire to remove their older messages from the mail servers but still have access to them. EmEx and the e-mail archive service will allow you to do exactly that.

The archive can be written to a CD-ROM or DVD. The archive could, in turn, be used by you:

for off-site reference (at sea, or over a slow connection)
for historical reference (plan to delete from mail server)
for cataloging old messages
to enable you to preserve personal messages but remove them from the email servers
etc.

Proceed to the E-mail Archive service requires LDAP authentication

More information

Details on the e-mail archiving service
Setting up the e-mail archive in Linux
EmEx, a tool to read the archives
How to create an archive:

from Local Folders your e-mail folders are on your computer system
from folders on the mail servers

Proceed to the E-mail Archive service requires LDAP authentication
How to read the CD-ROM or DVD containing the e-mail archive
General tips for e-mail storage 'good practices'
Most e-mail clients are unable to read archives from a read-only medium such as CD-ROM
Text editors can read the archives, as they are only ASCII files.

Please consider deleting the archived folders from the e-mail server, after you have confirmed that you can read the CD / DVD.

If you have questions, please contact the CIS Helpdesk at x2439.