ZCS Administrator's Guide Network Edition 6.0, Rev 1

Zimbra Archiving and Discovery

How Archiving Works

How Discovery Works

Creating Dedicated Archive COS in a Multi-Server Environment

Archiving Attribute

Creating Archive Mailboxes

Searching Across Mailboxes

Zimbra Archiving and Discovery is an optional feature for the Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) Network Edition that offers

•	Archiving, the ability to archive messages that were delivered to or sent by ZCS

•	Discovery, the ability to search across mailboxes

The prerequisite to enabling archiving is the installation and configuration of the Zimbra Archiving package on at least one mailbox server. The installation of this package provides the ZCS discovery (also known as cross mailbox) search tool and sets the attributes that allow archiving to be enabled on the Zimbra MTAs.

This chapter covers the following:

•	Installing and configuring archiving and discovery in single-server and in a multi-server deployment, as a dedicated archive server.

•	Creating archive mailboxes

•	Performing discovery searches

Archiving is configured on a per account basis. When archiving is enabled for an account, any email from or to that account is forked at the MTA, and a copy of the message is delivered to a predefined archive mailbox. The archiving process is transparent to account users.

Discovery allows you to conduct a search for email messages across live and archived mailboxes and copy the results to a target specified mailbox.

ZCS Administrator's Guide Network Edition 6.0, Rev 1