how to deal with mail retention/archival.

[Michael D. Sofka]

On 08/26/2016 09:09 AM, Alvin Starr via Info-cyrus wrote:
> A company I am working with is facing issues of regulatorymail retention.
>
> Some searching has yielded little useful results other than putting a
> system in front to store all incoming messages.
>
> What are others doing for mail archival?
>
> An ideal solution would let the users carry on using current use
> patterns and not impose extra restrictions.
>

One possible solution in Cyrus, is to have expunge_mode on delayed, and 
then set the /vendor/cmu/cyrus-imapd/expire to something very large. 
Or, to place the expire notation deeper in the tree, so it can be 
removed from individual mailboxes.  This is a little clunky, and  it 
would be nice if 'Administrative Hold' were a mailbox setting in Cyrus.

Mike
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