Archiving with Firebird

System Archive

The System Archive is a store where expired messages are kept for a period determined by your organizational retention policy. Messages can be retained indefinitely, or for a user-configurable period of time.

Message Recovery

Messages can be recovered from the archive to their original mailbox whilst keeping their original time-stamp.

The administrator can allow Users to access their Archive direct from the Mailtraq Webmail client - included with Mailtraq Professional. The 'Search' interface enables your compliance personnel to conduct searches without help from the IT department.

 

Message Search

The Console provides a search tool to make it easy to find and recover messages in the system.

Searches can be run on:

• System Archives
• All Mailslots
• Current Mailslot
• Selected Mailslot
• Archive for Current Mailslot
• Archive for Selected Mailslot

and queried by

• Date range
• Messages from an email address
• Messages to an email address
• Message Subjects
• Words in the message content

Mailbox controls

Messages that have remained in the mailbox for a specified period can be automatically moved to the central archive, erased or forwarded to another address.

Messages can be forwarded to another internal mailbox set to act as a 'gateway' service to export messages as text files to disc, where they can be sent to tape or CD. Thus a permanent external record of all messages can be created which can then be 'interrogated' by other software tools outside Mailtraq.

 

 

 

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Which database to use? 

Firebird is a very robust and exceptionally reliable relational database that can handle substantial loads. Firebird offers excellent concurrency, high performance, and powerful language support for stored procedures and triggers. It offers a mature code base and a proven track record - it has been used in production systems since 1981. Firebird has the ability to be operated in Client - Server mode and thus the database can be directly manipulated. Firebird may exhibit performance issues with IMAP on large databases, and for that reason Mailtraq also offers AFX

AFX is a high performance database that stores each mailbox in a separate file. It is a robust and responsive sytem and is the recommended choice for most users. AFX was first introduced as a beta option in build 2156