Additional mailstore for archives?

[Craig White]

On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 22:53 -0400, Forrest Aldrich wrote:
> Typically you have one mailstore defined, as I understand.
> 
> However, I have a situation where I have archives of thousands of 
> messages, going back years ago, that I wish to keep.   I'd rather not 
> keep all of these on my primary mailstore (no need, and it eats up space).
> 
> Is it possible with cyrus imapd 2.x to have an additional store linked 
> in somehow such that I can place those archives elsewhere (say an 
> external drive), and yet have them visible to my view (via imap)?   Does 
> that make any sense...
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It's very possible that a better answer will come but...

given your scenario, you could always mount a remote nfs volume
at /var/spool/imap/f/user/forrie/little_used_directory (probably would
have to have the mount done as cyrus:mail and refer to it only when
desired.

Craig