From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OqBlk-00049D-9J for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:19:59 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A515CE1367 for ; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:19:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bw0-f53.google.com (mail-bw0-f53.google.com [209.85.214.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3782BE0FFB for ; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:56:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz1 with SMTP id 1so6019188bwz.40 for ; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:56:44 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=P5Ns99lUTx60yMvOnZ+di7iW7MUkJbT1OcL0xN1Yb+4=; b=vhiVI+uWWqRFcbFvq6NFruf6pZtpQBumAUIpn5sv8TUIxkR2HPy9qiNfT4Fl05wf5I cwAOzbz6JqWrFezq1wT10GwxBaIEioYjbnnWxeEq9AcRu82sQVLmQSd34uNByVHNczN7 c0i1uXNUTDXlPIn7t09xRieqmSxfUlf+sNCOQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=pfh/Irf0xusVPrk+PP9y84BoOurUZfOAGo7128UWygy1vRcmaQ09LoR9PVdZ4HgUbf Lam9jqUOZnxjYYjf7ngVmAxThK2tdfrex33cQ8L1i0FThaRVXx3jjJ4vHCScKXVXuwY4 Hd5owa7KGTut46Cb1dx2XaPDAzzveBd/bN7gM= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.98.74 with SMTP id p10mr2647935bkn.84.1283201804504; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:56:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.69.196 with HTTP; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:56:44 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:56:44 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: new mail client From: Aniruddha To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: 3ff1885c-d07b-4f5e-a8e5-a0c16cc07358 X-Archives-Hash: 052b0947c3ec07e45fbfdb6f5f913525 On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 4:10 PM, James wrote: > A nice system wide backup strategy with around 2 dozen > thunderbird clients, is also part of the strategy. So > first users try to retrieve their lost emails, then > ask an admin...... I like a separate backup system for email > not part of the regular backup system..... pop3 is easy to backup, just copy the ~/.thundebird folder (%APPDATA%/thunderbird on Windows). You can use rscync, rsnapshot or a commercial program like CrashPlan. Another option is to provide an imap server with Zarafa which allows users to restore e-mails (1) and (brick) level backups server side (2) 1) http://doc.zarafa.com/6.40/User_Manual/en-US/html/_restoring_deleted_items.html 2) http://doc.zarafa.com/6.40/Administrator_Manual/en-US/html/_backup_amp_restore.html