Archiving Mail

[Dave Filchak]

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Martin Hepworth wrote:

>> Thanks Martin,
>>
>> This gives me an idea of how to start a backup script. I do not want to
>> back up all of it, as this would be to big. I only want to back up like
>> 4 or 5 users email is all. Then be able to restore it somewhere to be
>> able to find a particular message, preferably from a windows machine as
>> no one other than myself knows how to use Linux....
>>
>> --
>>
>> Craig Daters (craig at westpress.com)
>> Systems Administrator
>> West Press Print Communications
>>
>
> Craig
>
> you could get the users into MailWatch so they can release their own
> email from within the DB...you'd have to keep the uncompressed emails
> around for more days though as the MW interace only deals with the
> rfc-822 format emails, not uncompresseing/extracting on the fly.
>
> The MW stuff can (and will) look into the users table to allow non-admin
>  users to check their own email for spam etc...
>
> --
> Martin Hepworth
> Snr Systems Administrator
> Solid State Logic
> Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
>
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Martin,

Sorry to jump in here but something you said caught my attention. You
said "The MW stuff can (and will) look into the users table to allow
non-admin users to check their own email for spam etc..."

Can you clarify: are you saying that if the user has a real login
account on the server, they would be able to log into MailWatch and see
their spam and infected emails and release  mail themselves? Or do they
use their email user/password, which I guess would make more sense, now
wouldn't it ;-)

Dave

Dave

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