> we use Cyrus 2.2 on a Debian Etch Linux with Sasl and Thunderbird as a > IMAP mailclient for our users. The problem is, that the mailboxes become > very big, so I look for an automatic archiving software, which takes the > mails out of the mailbox into a file and a searchable database. Are you looking to archive message for data-retention or because you need to recover capacity? > Thunderbird offers the possibility to mark a mail with an editable > keyword (right mouseclick) even as a bulk operation on all selected emails. Does that actually get saved to the server? Or just in TB's cache? > So my plan is, that the user marks all mails which can be archived with > that keyword (lets say "archive"), or move them to a subfolder "archive". > There must be a process in cyrus, which copies these emails into a > (zip)-file and/or into a database, to have them somehow accessable. > Cyrus must do this with the administrator account, It should be trivial to write an IMAP tool that will archive messages. I'm curious because I am currently working on a .NET/Gtk# application to do some management of Cyrus. Currently it profiles a mailstore and creates a graph relating age of messages to storage space consumed. > because the imap > credentials of all the users are of course not known to us. Or we > install an "archive"-useraccount which has access to all mailboxes. Recommend the second, I try never to connect to the box as the cyrus account. Just grant appropriate access to the appropriate resources. > Does something like this exist? Where to look for? Not to my knowledge. ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
