How to get e-mail messages from Mail Scanner?

[Jason Gottschalk]

Hello Julian,

They are stored like this:
%date%/nonspam/filename

Monday, July 16, 2007, 4:46:33 PM, you wrote:
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Julian> Are you saving them in raw queue file format?\
Julian> If so, just drop them in the outgoing queue
Julian> /var/spool/mqueue on sendmail
Julian> /var/spool/postfix/incoming on postfix
Julian> Set the ownerships and permissions correctly, and they should just get
Julian> delivered.


Julian> Jason Gottschalk wrote:
>> Hello Jim,
>>
>> But I think it it is the archive, I used the Store command. There
>> are not any pop accounts for this domain on this server, we are just
>> passing them through here to be scanned.
>>
>> So how do I get hundreds of messages in the archive or the quarantine
>> sent out to an address? Or, saved in a format I can copy to the
>> workstation and import?
>>
>> Jason.
>>
>> Monday, July 16, 2007, 3:55:36 PM, you wrote:
>> Jim> Do you have a POP server running, i.e. DoveCot perchance?
>>
>> Jim> If so, just have the customer POP into your server and pull the mail.
>>
>> Jim> If I recall, OutLook does still support POP accounts.
>>
>> Jim> - Jim
>> Jim> At 12:48 PM 7/16/2007, you wrote:
>>   
>>>> Jason Gottschalk wrote:
>>>>       
>>>>> Hello MailScanner,
>>>>>
>>>>> I have a customer that has lost his exchange mailbox. I have been
>>>>> archiving mail for this customer for some time. With Filters, I can
>>>>> see the e-mail he has sent and received for a long time.
>>>>>
>>>>> How do I get these messages out of the system so I can import them
>>>>> into his outlook?
>>>>>
>>>>> I can click the "[ ]" and send them one at a time, but that will takes
>>>>> years!
>>>>>
>>>>> any ideas?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>         
>>>> Don't know how to do it, but if I had to do it I'd attack the 
>>>> problem this way:
>>>>
>>>> 1. Find a specific set of criteria (could be more than one) to 
>>>> separate the messages I want from the rest (for example, all 
>>>> messages that have 192.168.x.z in them since they would have been 
>>>> sent from the client's particular box, plus all messages that say 
>>>> "client at client.com" somwhere on the same line as the word "From:".
>>>> 2. Take every file that fits that criteria and copy it somewhere 
>>>> else (from the quarantine or the archive)
>>>> 3. Place those files in the MTA's queue (for example, in sendmail it 
>>>> should be /var/spool/mqueue)
>>>> 4. ...
>>>> 5. Profit!
>>>>
>>>> Just kidding about those last two. Anybody here with a better 
>>>> understanding of the mechanics of MailScanner could tell you if this 
>>>> would work.
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>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>   

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 Jason Gottschalk                         mailto:Jason at SYO.Com
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