[Ovidiu]

I've searched and found a couple of threads here asking the same question but no proper solution. Mostly these threads were a few years old so I am starting my own here.

Basically I have clients hosting their emails with me that need to comply with certain regional laws which means 100% reliable storage of all incoming/outgoing emails. Lets not worry about how I back this up, for now I only need a solution for archiving.

My base system runs ISPCFG3 with Debian Squeeze.

Needed features:

• archive all emails, incoming and outgoing on a per email domain basis

Nice to have features:

• web interface for searching and restoring from the archive into the original location
• CLI for restoring from the archive into the original location

What I have found so far:

• easy postfix solution, need more explanations on this one: http://www.arschkrebs.de/postfix/postfix_archive.shtml
• DBMail - not sure this is what I need, seems to be a complete IMAP server? http://www.dbmail.org/
• Commercial solution, not sure if it is still being developed, need to contact them: http://xamime.com/
• Milters, never worked with them, this is the archiving section: https://www.milter.org/milters/archiving/alphabetical/1

To be honest, the seemingly easiest solution from the ones I listed above seems to be this one: http://www.arschkrebs.de/postfix/postfix_archive.shtml but I admit I don't completely understand it.

Does anyone here have a similar solution in place and is willing to share the details?