I need to read up on this, thank you for your post. This archiving method is new to me.
I may be on the edge, but lets compare zimbra to outlook, which is probably the most used in production.... outlook has .pst functionality, so why wouldn't zimbra come up with something similar to crush the competition?
Just a thought, for those many thousands of outlook users that have to make the migrations.
I still feel Zimbra can create its own archive file type that can do what .psts can do, and can be accessed via web service, or desktop client to make this happen. Are the developers that enthralled with server storage only for user archive files? Not every client that they want to gain can have TB's of storage. Zimbra needs to have this option to catch the variety of their customers, of which are not always storage rich.
We are not storage rich. I will look into REST, as an option, but if I did not size my system right now, what will I need 3 years from now, when my inboxes are full?
I know I could add more storage, but maybe I want to keep it at a cap, like we do, so I like the .pst option to archive locally into each users network folder (which is not the zimbra server), so they could have as many .zpsts as they want.
Please add to this thread, as I think more is needed.
