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IBM has several email archiving solutions (for example FileNet as well as IBM Content Manager Common Store for Lotus Domino) and there are many 3rd-party archiving solutions for Lotus Domino available as well. All of them support automatic archiving per user according to some centrally defined rules/policies/profiles. But when it comes to manual archiving triggered by the enduser, my guess is that you always end up with some sort of action button implemented in the email template. This is no problem for a Notes application because you have to implement that button only in the mail template and all individual mailfiles inherit that "extension" from the template. Of course this assumes that you don't have to distribute additional DLLs onto your users workstations but even then there are ways to do this in Notes as well.
Any archiving solution i'm aware of also comes with a server component which would be the place to take care of any format conversions. Depending on your archiving needs it may make sense to archive in Notes format or in DXL/XML or in PDF/A or TIFF or whatever.
Feedback response number ESCB7JBL7L created by ~Michelle Zekvelutheretsi on 09/09/2008