Need suggestions on storing email archives.
 

Hi,

Ours is an old mortgage brokerage firm in Toronto. I wanted to know a mechanism to store our email conversations archive. I had the plans to store the data in our servers.

Then one of my employees told me that there are services that will provide cloud storage for email archiving and management. I went through the service page of one such storage solutions. http://www.storagepipe.com/services/...iving-service/ I feel satisfied with their promises.

I would like to know what you are doing to archive your emails? Can solutions like the above help us more in organizing and managing the emails easily? Is it worth it?

Please, share your suggestions.

Welcome to the forums, David266.

I personally like to keep a backup of my email on my own machine, though I am not against keeping one also in the cloud.

It is not all that difficult to do both.

I would download them and encrypt them with gpg, then you can save them in your computer or upload them to some free cloud service like box.com, dropbox.com, etc.
Or you could use veracrypt (https://veracrypt.codeplex.com) , create an encrypted volume in your computer and mount it when you need it to save your emails inside.

Thanks for your inputs.

It has been helpful.

Mailstore is a free program than can be used to keep offline backups of POP/IMAP mailboxes.

Pavin.