The Zarafa Archiver product provides a way to minimize mailbox sizes by moving older messages to slower and thus cheaper storage. The slow storage consists of one or more additional Zarafa servers who’s sole task is to store archived messages.

The archive Zarafa servers have exactly the same storage architecture as a normal Zarafa server, all MAPI properties are stored in a MySQL database and all attachments are stored compressed on disk.

An archive mailbox can be enabled per user and the user will automatically get access to the archive mailbox from the clients.

Once a message is archived, it can be deleted from the original store. Optionally a stub to the archive can be created that allows a user to see the archived message and open it as if it were a normal message.

The Zarafa Archiver uses the Zarafa’s multi-server technology to access archive stores in a seamless way. Nonetheless, the Zarafa Archiver can be used in a single-server setup with limited functionality.

Zarafa Archiver is an additional product and is not a default component of the Zarafa Collaboration Platform. Subscriptions of Zarafa Archiver can only be used with the Zarafa Professional or Enterprise edition, where both editions provide 20 archive users for free.