Per Domain Recovery Archiving

[Stephen Conway]

Good day:

Yes , now that I have looked through the change logs I noticed that also.
Can I just re-install the new rpm over my old installation , and update the
'wrapper' files ?

Thanks,

Steve

 
 
 
 


-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
Of Julian Field
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 2:04 PM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: Per Domain Recovery Archiving


According to the ChangeLog, I wrote it for 4.20.

At 18:53 14/08/2003, you wrote:
>Good day:
>
>I have set it up, but it doesn't appear to be working.  I have version
>4.13-3 , do you think this could be the problem?
>
>I have put the following into config:
>Archive Mail = /etc/MailScanner/rules/archive.mail.rules
>
>archive.mail.rules contains similar to:
>To:     *@domaina.com   /diskb2/current/inc_doma
>
>File inc_doma exists , does it need to have other perms other than root
>writable ?
>
>After making the above, I did a /etc/rc.d/initd/MailScanner restart
>
>Any info is appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Steve
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
Behalf
>Of Julian Field
>Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 1:03 PM
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Re: Per Domain Recovery Archiving
>
>
>At 17:26 14/08/2003, you wrote:
> >Good day:
> >
> >We have an install of MailScanner running.  We want to 'archive' ALL
> >messages based on domain for the ability to recover any lost messages for
a
> >given domain.  That is, all incoming messages for @domaina.com get
appended
> >to a file called /arc/inc_domaina and all outgoing messages would be
> >appended to /arc/out_domaina ,   I know that if we give a path in the
> >'Archive Mail' option, that it will create a 'Sendmail' queue type
archive,
> >what would be nice is just to have the SMTP messages be appended in a BSD
> >style mailbox , or even forwarded to a user 'inc_domaina at domaina.com'
user
> >mailbox, .  Or maybe, with a rule can we create per domain archive files
> >with Mail scanner ?  Is there a way to get the 'Mail Archive' option to
> >archive not ALL messages to one location, but domaina to one address ,
and
> >domainb to another address ?
>
>Create the file /arc/inc_domaina before you restart MailScanner, instead of
>making it a directory. It will see that it's a file and start automagically
>appending messages to it in mbox format (which is what you want).
>
>Then use a ruleset for
>Archive Mail = /etc/MailScanner/rules/archive.mail.rules
>In the ruleset file put things like this:
>
>From:   domaina.com     /arc/inc_domaina
>To:     domaina.com     /arc/out_domaina
>From:   domainb.com     /arc/inc_domainb
>To:     domainb.com     /arc/out_domainb
>and so on.
>
>Just do
>touch /arc/inc_domaina /arc/out_domaina /arc/inc_domainb /arc/out_domainb
>before you restart MailScanner so that all the files already exist so it
>knows to treat them as mbox files and not "normal" archive directories.
>
>Neat, huh? :-)
>
>Here's the latest edition of the comments for the "Archive Mail" parameter:
>
># Space-separated list of any combination of
># 1. email addresses to which mail should be forwarded,
># 2. directory names where you want mail to be stored,
># 3. file names (they must already exist!) to which mail will be appended
>#    in "mbox" format suitable for most Unix mail systems.
>#
># If you give this option a ruleset, you can control exactly whose mail
># is archived or forwarded. If you do this, beware of the legal
implications
># as this could be deemed to be illegal interception unless the police have
># asked you to do this.
>#Archive Mail = /var/spool/MailScanner/archive
>
>--
>Julian Field
>www.MailScanner.info
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