Bill Cole wrote:
Um, really?
I've had a little experience with SOx, HIPAA, GLBA, and Federal
E-Discovery compliance projects, and I've never heard that SOx applied
at all to state agencies or that it requires anyone to archive all
email forever. In fact, doing so as a matter of normal policy may be a
very bad idea under the E-Discovery rules. I'm certainly no lawyer,
but your management may want to find better ones than they seem to
have...
Well it doesn't, but management wants us to archive all electronic data
forever in a fashion that is compliant to that law.
You definitely need to be aware of the fact that one of the downsides
of mbox is performance and resource demands as the mbox files grow.
What do you consider a large mbox? We have users with single mbox files
of 3G and their mail loads up fine. We are using Seamonkey's email
client and it makes a local index file of all the message
to/from/subject/date/etc so it loads mail very quickly, pretty much
instantaneous. One thing I don't like about Maildir is that it keeps
each message as a seperate file, so you'll end up with directories with
20k+ files and run into glob problems, and with ext3, you have all these
sub 4kb messages still taking up a 4k block on the disk, wasting disk space.
