On Fri, 2016-08-26 at 16:13 +0000, Shawn Bakhtiar via Info-cyrus wrote: > > On Aug 26, 2016, at 8:35 AM, Giuseppe Ravasio (LU) via Info-cyrus < > > info-cyrus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I saw that someone proposed to make a sort of abuse of delayed > > expunge, > > but I think that in order to comply with regulatory retention > > should be better considering some specific software. > I don't see how using delayed expunge would really be consider abuse, > the documentation makes mention of its use for this very reason. +1 > We use rsync to make a duplicate of the email spool to a file server > at regular intervals, which eventually makes its way to tape. Same here. And always_bcc to a shared folder which is dumped to an MBOX file via fetchmail at an interval. Those can be archived or even shipped off-site. > Although we don't have regulatory requirements I've had to do a few > recoveries and have done so without problem. I always advise people to be hesitant about "we don't have regulatory requirements" as if you are a legal corporation of any kind, in almost all of the 50 states [United States], you are under data retention rules - even if you don't know it. Which you will discover when you are involved in a law suit - saying "uhh... yeah, we don't have those e -mails" will not be good. > > Finding something in the delayed_expunge folders after many years > > of archive will absolutely be a nightmare! Most states [again the United States] allow a corporation to have on file a documented data retention policy that states how long you retain e-mails; which if you comply with you will be OK. The policy just needs to be 'reasonable'. For example: where I work we say 120 days. No need - at least for legal reasons - to have years of archives. Obviously requirements vary by industry - but almost everyone is actually under some kind of requirement. -- Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> GPG D95ED383 Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/ To Unsubscribe: https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/info-cyrus
