Im curious if anyone is archiving emails and what they are using. I currently utilize sendmail/procmail/dovecot. thanks, ddh -- Dwayne Hottinger Network Administrator Harrisonburg City Public Schools "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." -- Albert Einstein "The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who, in times of moral crisis, preserved their neutrality." -- Dante
On Friday 09 October 2009 17:18:53 dhottinger at harrisonburg.k12.va.us wrote:> Im curious if anyone is archiving emails and what they are using. I > currently utilize sendmail/procmail/dovecot.What exactly do you mean by archiving? We use Postfix and Dovecot to backup any sent and received mail for our users. Postfix, using sender_bcc_maps, resends any mail to the sending user via an address extension (i.e. mail sent by foo at example.org gets resent to foo+sent at example.org) and Dovecot with Sieve, using the sieve_before directive, filters such sent mail into a private namespace that is hidden from the user (Backup/sent). Backing up received mail works very similar (ending up in Backup/received) but Postfix is not involved; this is a job for Sieve alone, again using the sieve_before directive and an appropriate script. So Postfix/Dovecot/Sieve. If ACLs worked a bit better in 1.2.x [1] I could even make the Backup namespace visible to its user and just ensure, via ACLs, that the user cannot delete any messages in this namespace. But this'll have to wait for 2.0 I believe. Does that answer your question? Andreas [1] http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2009-September/042783.html -- Andreas Ntaflos GPG Fingerprint: 6234 2E8E 5C81 C6CB E5EC 7E65 397C E2A8 090C A9B4 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20091010/98833881/attachment-0002.bin>
Could you show us an example how do you do this ? I'm really intersted in such solution. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andreas Ntaflos" <daff at dword.org> To: dovecot at dovecot.org Sent: Saturday, October 10, 2009 8:30:43 AM Subject: Re: [Dovecot] mail archiving On Friday 09 October 2009 17:18:53 dhottinger at harrisonburg.k12.va.us wrote:> Im curious if anyone is archiving emails and what they are using. I > currently utilize sendmail/procmail/dovecot.What exactly do you mean by archiving? We use Postfix and Dovecot to backup any sent and received mail for our users. Postfix, using sender_bcc_maps, resends any mail to the sending user via an address extension (i.e. mail sent by foo at example.org gets resent to foo+sent at example.org) and Dovecot with Sieve, using the sieve_before directive, filters such sent mail into a private namespace that is hidden from the user (Backup/sent). Backing up received mail works very similar (ending up in Backup/received) but Postfix is not involved; this is a job for Sieve alone, again using the sieve_before directive and an appropriate script. So Postfix/Dovecot/Sieve. If ACLs worked a bit better in 1.2.x [1] I could even make the Backup namespace visible to its user and just ensure, via ACLs, that the user cannot delete any messages in this namespace. But this'll have to wait for 2.0 I believe. Does that answer your question? Andreas [1] http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2009-September/042783.html -- Andreas Ntaflos GPG Fingerprint: 6234 2E8E 5C81 C6CB E5EC 7E65 397C E2A8 090C A9B4