[Users] mail archiver - best practices

[Michael Rasmussen]

On Mon, 25 Aug 2014 17:03:35 +0200
Gour <gour at atmarama.net> wrote:

> 
> Can anybody share some of the 'best practices' in using it, iow. do you
> use compression (tar,bz2), which format (tar?), how often to archive,
> using recursive folder structure etc.?
> 
For best cross platform support I would choose tar and zip for archive.

> Of course, from time to time there is need to find some old message(s)
> and I wonder what do you use to search within the archive?
> 
If you choose the option rename then the file names inside the archive
will use descriptive names (date_from at to@subject) which should be
easily searchable with any disend archiver.
 
> Any other point I forgot to ask?
> 
You could consider the option 'Select mails before' YYYY-MM-DD.

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