Configuring email archiving accounts
Before you can archive email, you need to set up and enable email archiving accounts, as described below. The archived emails will be stored in the archiving accounts. You can create multiple archive accounts and send different categories of email to different accounts.
When email is archived, you can view and manage the archived email messages. For more information, see
“Managing archived email”. You can also access the email archive remotely through IMAP.
To access this part of the web UI, your administrator account’s:
• Domain must be System
• access profile must have Read or Read-Write permission to the Others category
To enable and configure an email archive account
1. Go to Email Archiving > Archive Accounts > Archive Accounts.
GUI item | Description |
Status | Select to enable an email archiving account. Clear the check box to disable it. |
Account | Lists email archive accounts. |
Index Type | Indicates if archive indexing is in use and how much is indexed. Indexing speeds up content searches. The choices are: • None: email is not indexed. • Header: email headers are indexed. • Full: the entire message is indexed. |
Storage | Indicates the type of archive storage: Local or Remote. |
(Green dot in column heading) | Indicates whether the archive is currently referred to by an archive policy. If so, a red dot appears in this column and the entry cannot be deleted. |
2. Click New to create an account or double-click an account to modify it.
A multisection dialog appears.
3. Configure the following sections, and click Create.