ZCS Administrator's Guide Network Edition 6.0, Rev 1

Creating Archive Mailboxes

Create an archive mailbox and assign a COS

Create an archive mailbox with no COS or password

Enable archive forwarding to a third-party archiving server

Archive mailboxes are created using the CLI, zmarchiveconfig. The following archiving scenarios enable archiving for an account:

•	Create an archive mailboxes with an assigned COS

•	Create an archive mailboxes with no COS assigned

•	Archive forwarding to a third-party archiving server

Note: Archive accounts you create are counted against the number of accounts you can create based on your Zimbra license. Archive mailboxes are listed in the administration console along with the live accounts. Archive forwarding does not count against the Zimbra license.

Create an archive mailbox and assign a COS

1.	Log on as ZCS.

2.	Type zmarchiveconfig enable <account@example.com> archive-cos <cosname>

Archive accounts are created based on the Zimbra Archive name templates.

•	The attribute zimbraIsSystemResource is added to the archive account and set to TRUE.

•	The archive account is displayed in the administration console.

•	When a message is received in a mailbox with archiving enabled, a copy of the message is sent to the archive mailbox..

Create an archive mailbox with no COS or password

If the archive account is not assigned a COS, the following settings are set by default.

•	Mailbox quota is set to 0, unlimited quota.

•	Spam and virus checks are disabled.

•	Hide in GAL is enabled, so the archive account does not display in the GAL

To create an account:

1.	Log on as ZCS

2.	Type zmarchiveconfig enable user@example.com.

Enable archive forwarding to a third-party archiving server

If the archive account is not maintained within ZCS, you do not need to set a password, COS or other attributes as no archive account is created in ZCS.

1.	Log on as zimbra.

2.	Type zmarchiveconfig enable <account@example.com> archive-address account-archive@offsiteserver.com archive-create false.

ZCS Administrator's Guide Network Edition 6.0, Rev 1