Field

Description

Active

Check this option to activate mail archiving.

Archive to directory

Select or fill in the path to the directory where mail should be archived.

NOTE: Be careful when specifying a mail archive path. It has to be a fast drive, preferable directly attached to the server or high end storage such as iSCSI/SAN. Pointing to a slow path such as SMB on the network can affect server performance as backups get written to disk during SMTP processing. Another alternative, if backing up to a drive via UNC is really necessary, is to enable MDA, since then IceWarp Server will first receive the message and afterwords archive it. For more information about MDA, refer to the General – Advanced chapter.

NOTE: The archive directory path must be specified in UNC format. Do not use drive mapping letters.

Directory trailer path

Directory that precedes the user's inbox/sent items folder.

This field can either:

• be left blank
• or contain the date time variables to have folders (and mails) sorted chronologically.

Integrate archive with IMAP folder

If ticked, the Archive folder will appear in the IMAP folder list and users will have access to their received/sent messages in read-only mode.

Field

Description

Archive messages

Select from four options:

Received and sent messages to Inbox and Sent folder

Archives both incoming and outgoing messages into separate folders.

Received messages to Inbox folder

Archives incoming messages into the appropriate folder.

Received and sent messages to root folder

Archives all messages into the root folder.

Received messages to root folder

Archives incoming messages into the root folder.

NOTE: Root folder here means the root of the user's mailbox - so there will not be Inbox/Sent folders.

Forward archived messages to

Fill in an email address where you want to have all messages forwarded to. You can enter more addresses separated by semicolons.

This can be a way how to backup your (server/domain/user) email correspondence. It can be also any outside address.

Do not archive spam

Check this box and messages which are marked as spam will be excluded from the archive process.

Archive all users

Choose this option to archive mail for all users in all domains.

or

Archive only specified users and domains

Choose this option to select specific domains, groups and/or users to archive mail for.

Use the Add button to choose domains, groups and/or users.

Field

Description

Delete messages from archive older than (Days)

Enter a number here and emails older than this number of days will be deleted.

Backup deleted emails to

Check this option and enter a directory name to have deleted emails backed up to the specified file. The file name can contain "yyyymmdd", which will create a separate file for each day.

These backup files are in standard ZIP format and files are stored with relative path information, so to restore a particular file you should extract the contents to your top-level mail directory with the extract option to "use folder names".

Password protection

Optionally specify a password here to have the backup file password protected.

Delete Backup files older than (Days)

Enter a number here and backups older than that many days will be deleted. Zero means that backup files are not deleted – they are kept forever.

NOTE: This function deletes all files with the same extension based on the system file time stamp. It is highly recommended that, if you use this function, you specify a directory that only contains these backup files.