SurgeMail Legal Archive

To use the S3 service you will first need to Register at amazon, then to activate your S3 subscription in SurgeMail paste the key into the web admin interface, click on "Legal Archive" on the left hand side of the web admin tool and you will see a box to enter it.

 

Summary

 

The Legal Archive feature in Surgemail is intended for storing a copy of all incoming and outgoing email for several years. The archive can be searched by the administrator or direclty by users (this can be disabled).

 

Messages are compressed, encrypted, and indexed, then optionally sent to the Amazon S3 storage network for redundant offsite storage without over loading your local disks.

 

When a user requests a mesesage just that message is fetched and decrypted so the message is available instantly. The indexes are stored locally so searching for messages is relatively fast.

 

Settings (To adjust settings use your web admin interface)


Essential Settings:

Enable Legal Archive
Path for indexes (this may use significant space)
Encryption Password (if you loose this all your archives will be permantently lost - write it down NOW)

Optional Obscure settings, best left alone :-)

Disable Amazon/S3 (Keep files on local disks)
Bucket to store data (if you change this all existing archives will be invisible)
Host number (for shared storage clusters, to give each host a unique identifier on amazon) 1...n
Years to keep messages (default 7)
Limit direct search of archived messages to those in the archive group