CpVES Archivemail

This page describes with upcoming Archivemail feature.

The Superadmin can modify the domain, that all users can use this Archivemail fetaure. If the superadmin enables it for an domain, all users that uses IMAP can use Archivemail feature.

This fetaure is an frontend for the Archivemail program. The IMAP user can define for every IMAP-Folder different options for archivemail.

Example:

• archive mails after n days
• archive only read mails
• archive foldername with month (foo_01)
• archive foldername with year (foo_2007)
• archive foldername with month and year (foo_200701)

This fetaures needs some additional setup on the mailserver, because you have to run dovecot too.

But installing dovecot and Courier IMAP Server will not work on Debian, because dpkg blocks the installing of two imap server at the same time on the same host.

There are some solutions for this problem:
1. install second imap server (dovecot) into chroot
2. install second imap server (dovecot from source
3. install dovecot on another system and mount the mbox files via nfs

If you run dovecot and Courier on the same host, you getting problems, because the default IMAP ports are already use by Courier. The easied solution is, to configure two IPs on the server and run dovecot on the second IP with an DNS name mailarchive.exmaple.com.

If you don’t have an second IP address, you can run dovecot on another TCP port. But this solution makes the archivemail feature harder for users.