Archival Process

Rob Siemborski rjs3 at andrew.cmu.edu
Fri Jun 27 16:08:23 EDT 2003


On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, pnelson wrote:

> So I was thinking that I would just tar up the 2002 directory on the
> IMAP server and then remove the directory and move the tar file to a
> CDR.

Not quite good enough.  You'll want to actually DELETE the mailbox via the
IMAP protocol, not just remove the directory.  Otherwise you'll have
dangling metadata in the mailbox list.

-Rob

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