Hi, On Mon, 23 Aug 2010, Radosław Korzeniewski wrote:
> 2010/8/23 Marcio Merlone <marcio.merl...@a1.ind.br> > > > I was wondering... would be nice to have a maildir backup plugin, where > > one could backup a maildir and have its contents indexed and restorable > > by sender, subject, date, attachments, etc.. I could try to write one > > myself, but wouldn't have the required skills and time. Has anyone ever > > though about this? Is it doable? We backup a cyrus imap server with Bacula. It doesn't use Maildir, but uses an MH-like format which also consists of a directory of files for each mail folder. I imagine such a plugin could probably support Cyrus also. > It is a good idea. It should be easy. The problem is, who wants to use it? If it were there and worked for cyrus, I would use it and it would be handy to be able to restore specific emails. Right now, the easiest thing to do is usually to restore the full mailbox, reconstruct it and then pick out the emails which one wants over imap. On a very big mailbox (we have users with > 50000 emails in one mailbox), that could be a pain. Whether that is sufficient utility to justify its implementation and maintenance I'm not sure. We don't do a lot of these single-email restores. Gavin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sell apps to millions through the Intel(R) Atom(Tm) Developer Program Be part of this innovative community and reach millions of netbook users worldwide. Take advantage of special opportunities to increase revenue and speed time-to-market. Join now, and jumpstart your future. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-atom-d2d _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
