Re: [archivemail-user] How to read archived email easyly ?

[Nikolaus S. <mic...@we...>]

On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 01:54:43AM +0200, Xavier Rosenfeld wrote:
> I am new to archivemail.
> software look like very interesting for us, we had 14 imap accounts in 
> our company running with postfix and courier-imap.
[...]
> Before trying i would like to know how to easyly read archived email, 
> our employes need sometimes to read old email.

archivemail creates archives in standard mbox format, albeit compressed.
This means deflated archives can be read with standard tools.

To my knowledge though, courier does not support the mbox format, so if
you want to re-export some of those archives with courier-imap, you
probably need to convert them to Maildir.

Which is technically simple, but of course any space gained by
compressing the old emails will be lost if you deflate the archives.

Nikolaus