Re: [courier-users] Offline maildir reader

[Matus U. - f. <uh...@fa...>]

>On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 11:13 AM, Alexei Yu. Batyr' <le...@pc...> wrote:
>> Why not just copy these messages to some IMAP subfolder of new account's
>> Maildir?

On 08.08.14 12:06, Lisa Muir wrote:
>That approach makes sense where the same user exists on the new system, but
>is a hit and miss approach for scenarios where a user has left. As a
>sysadmin, I just want a one hig approach to get the job done rather than
>get engaged in a process where people mull over the appropriate nature of
>someone in particular having access to someone else's old email.

it those users left, who do you expect to read the e-mail?

If they are still alive, why shouldn't you move ther mail to new mailboxes?

>It also makes sense for me to think about this as someone who has been
>encouraging all users to use IMAP for the past 14 years, we've got some
>imap accounts that are huge, say 20+gb.... enough of them causes a problem,
>and perhaps an IMAP server isn't the best or most appropriate place to hold
>14 year old email, there must come a time where it goes into archives
>somewhere and I don't think a MUA is the appropriate place for that, but
>some searchable repository is.

Moving e-mails to compressed mbox-style folders and giving users possibility
to read it is a good idea. Unfortunately courier does only support
maildirs...

OTOH, it should be their problem to keep their mailbox clean...

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