Mail Archive
The Archive sub-node allows you to specify mail archive and pruning options:
Figure. General section
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Field |
Description |
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Active |
Select or fill in the path to the directory where mails should be archived. Warning: Be careful when specifying a mail archive path. It
has to be a fast drive, preferable directly attached to the server or high
end storage such as iSCSI/SAN. Pointing to a slow path such as SMB on the
network can affect server performance as backups get written to disk
during SMTP processing. Another alternative, if backing up to a drive via
UNC is really necessary, is to enable MDA, since then IceWarp Server will
first receive the message and afterwords archive it. For more information
about MDA, refer to Advanced. |
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Archive to directory |
Select or fill in the path to the directory where mails should be archived. Warning: Be careful when specifying a mail archive path. It has to be a fast drive, preferable directly attached to the server or high end storage such as iSCSI/SAN. Pointing to a slow path such as SMB on the network can affect server performance as backups get written to disk during SMTP processing. Another alternative, if backing up to a drive via UNC is really necessary, is to enable MDA, since then IceWarp Server will first receive the message and afterwords archive it. For more information about MDA, refer to Advanced. Note: The archive directory path must be specified in UNC format. Do not use drive mapping letters. |
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Directory trailer path |
Directory that precedes the user's inbox / sent items folder. This field can either:
Recommended folder format is "yyyy-mm". |
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Integrate archive with IMAP folder |
If checked, the Archive folder will appear in the IMAP folder list and users will have access to their received / sent messages in read-only mode. This folder automatically appears in WebClient and has to be signed up to in other email clients. |
Figure. Options section
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Field |
Description |
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Archive messages |
Select from four options:
Note: Root folder here means the root of the user's mailbox so there will not be Inbox/Sent folders. |
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Forward archived messages to |
Fill in an email address where you want to have all messages forwarded to. You can enter more addresses separated by semicolons. This can be a way how to backup your (server/domain/user) email correspondence. It can be also any outside address. |
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Do not archive spam |
Check this box and messages which are marked as spam will be excluded from the archive process. |
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Do not archive RSS |
Check this box to have RSS feeds excluded from archive process. |
Figure. Backup & Expiration section
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Field |
Description |
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Delete messages from archive older than (Days) |
Enter a number here and emails older than this number of days from current day will be deleted. |
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Backup deleted messages to file |
Check this option and enter a directory name to have deleted emails backed up to the specified file. The file name can contain "yyyymmdd", which will create a separate file for each day. These backup files are in standard ZIP format and files are stored with relative path information, so to restore a particular file you should extract the contents to your top-level mail directory with the extract option to "use folder names". |
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Password protection |
Optionally specify a password here to have the backup file password protected. |
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Delete Backup files older than (Days) |
Enter a number here and backups older than this number of days will be deleted. Zero means that backup files are not deleted, they are kept forever. Note: This function deletes all files with the same
extension based on the system file time stamp. |
