Archived mail

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Wed Dec 29 16:43:31 GMT 2004


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Did you set the ownership and permissions correctly, so that whatever
user you have in Run As User can actually write to that file?

Rodney Green wrote:

>Thank you Vlad. I tried your example and haven't been able to get MS to
>write to the archive file. I created the file using touch in the correct
>directory. I restarted MS as well. Any ideas what might be wrong?
>
>Thanks,
>Rod
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
>Of Vlad Mazek
>Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 8:44 AM
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Re: Archived mail
>
>
>I've been at this as well for the past day or so. You can specify a ruleset
>instead of a directory in MailScanner.conf like this:
>
>Archive Mail = /etc/MailScanner/rules/archive.rules
>
>Then inside that archive, define the mbox files you want to keep the mail
>in, for example:
>
>FromOrTo:   vlad at mazek.com   /var/spool/mail/vladarchive.mbx
>FromOrTo:   default   no
>
>This will only archive mails sent to/from me in a separate archive file.
>
>-Vlad
>
>Rodney Green wrote:
>
>
>
>>Hello. I recently set the archive parameter in the ms conf file. I'd
>>like to have it archive messages (per our policy) in mbox format,
>>rather than postfix queue format. Is this possible?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Rod
>>
>>
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