archive mails only as queue files?

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Mon Feb 28 18:28:14 GMT 2005


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Currently the Archive Mail does exactly that, and stores all mail in the
raw queue format of whatever MTA you are using. You will have to write a
script to convert those raw queue files into rfc822 message files, if
that is what you want.

Someone on this list might even write it for you for a suitable bribe.

Felix Schwarz wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I'm trying to store all incoming mails to a certain address on my
>disk. The rule part (which mails should be stored) is no problem but I
>have a problem with the format in which the mails are stored.
>
>Currently I wrote in my MailScanner.conf:
>
>
>>Archive Mail = /var/spool/MailScanner/archive/
>>
>>
>
>But then MailScanner archives all mails in my exim queue format. :-(
>What I try to achieve is that the mail is stored in the Maildir format
>or at least in the mbox format when the mbox MAY NOT EXIST.
>
>In the archives I found a pointer from Julian to
>
>
>>Quarantine Whole Messages As Queue Files = no
>>
>>
>but that doesn't change anything for mail archiving.
>
>Is it currently possible with MailScanner?
>
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>Felix
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