mail archiving

[Julian Field]

At 08:16 26/10/2002, you wrote:
>Looks like we switch archiving on to a directory. Does this mean files are
>stored in qf/df format?

Depends on the setting

# When you quarantine an entire message, do you want to store it as
# raw mail queue files (so you can easily send them onto users) or
# as human-readable files (header then body in 1 file)?
Quarantine Whole Messages As Queue Files = no

which I added a few days ago.

>  Can we use this facility to append mails to a single
>file in the same format as how sendmail stores mail in /var/spool/mail/$user
>file? Archived files can be used directly by a mail client then. Would I be
>right in assuming that archiving of mails is done post cleaning/ scanning.

If you set the above option to "no" then you should be able (pretty much)
to just cat them together (probably better add a blank line and a line
starting "From " between each one.
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