Creating mail copies for backup

[Julian Field]

At 06:28 05/11/2002, you wrote:
>procmail can do it as mentioned by others, MailScanner is quite happy to
>copy in the qf and df files

MailScanner can now either copy the qf+df pair for each message, or a more
readable headers+body file of the message.

>, only issue with this idea is on a busy mail
>server you get directories with thousands and thousands of files in
>there real fast.

Do it very selectively, and it's only a problem on naff OS's that can't
handle big directories very quickly.
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