Archiving emails with Cyrus

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> Adam Tauno Williams schrieb:
> > Are you looking to archive message for data-retention or because you  
> > need to recover capacity?
> I'll need both, sooner or later. For the moment it'll be enough to gain 
> some more capacity. Thanks for your answer.
> >> Thunderbird offers the possibility to mark a mail with an editable
> >> Keyword (right mouseclick) even as a bulk operation on all selected emails.
> > Does that actually get saved to the server?  Or just in TB's cache?
> Good question. I played around a bit, and looked in the cyrus mail 
> spool, but it seems these marks are not transferred back to the server.

What I expected, 

> > plication to do some management of Cyrus.  Currently it profiles a  
> > mailstore and creates a graph relating age of messages to storage  
> > space consumed.
> I could do that with php, but if the users can't mark their messages to 
> be archived, than it'll not be flexible enough. I can do that, just by 
> date, but that's not what I want.

It's a bummer that basically no clients support annotation.  Probably
setting up an archive folder is the only workable solution.