Archiving old email?

Bron Gondwana brong at fastmail.fm
Mon Dec 28 08:08:43 EST 2015


On Mon, Dec 28, 2015, at 02:28, Patrick Goetz via Info-cyrus wrote:
> On 12/26/2015 04:44 PM, Bron Gondwana via Info-cyrus wrote:
> >
> > Each mailbox can have its storage split between two drives - one that's
> > high speed with recent mail, and slower speed drives for bulk storage.
> >
> > At FastMail, we store the current week's email on SSDs in RAID1, and the
> > remainder (almost all of it!) on big SATA drives in RAID6.
> >
> 
> 
> I guess the real problem for me is that applications like Thunderbird 
> like to cache the mail folders locally in order to improve performance, 
> so it sounds like the cyrus archive feature is not going to help with 
> that particular problem.

No, probably not.  You'd be looking more for automatically moving messages to
different folders after a period of time.

Bron.
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