Archiving Mail

[Martin Hepworth]

CCraig Daters wrote:
> 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...
>>
> I do have other users set up to check their quarantined stuff, and I had
> considered storing the email in the DB, but was unsure how this would
> affect the load on our server as we process almost 2GB of mail a month,
> (due to all the file attachments/jobs that we receive to print...) and
> the resulting DB would be almost as large for the few users that I want
> to keep mail around for.
>
> If I don't need to be worried about it though, I'm all over it :)
>
> --
> Craig Daters (craig at westpress.com)
> Systems Administrator
> West Press Print Communications

Craig
The Database doesn't hold the actual email, that is left on the disk in
either rfc822 or queue file format depending on the settings in
MailScanner.conf

If you're already using the non-admin user's function to check against
quarantined stuff then its more of less the same thing for 'normal'
email. You just need to make sure you are archiving the email for X days
for those users an dthey can then forward the email to themselves if
they are daft enough to have a deleted the billing/work email.

Thinking about all this, wouldn't it be better to add better controls
into the work flow so that work/billing info is held per job somewhere
like a document repository. That way if someone isn't available for work
you can still see their work to be done etc???

--
Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300



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