MailScanner Archive Option

[Richard Sidlin]

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From: "Glenn Steen" <glenn.steen at gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 2:09 AM
To: "MailScanner discussion" <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
Subject: Re: MailScanner Archive Option

> 2010/1/28 Stephen Swaney <steve at fsl.com>:
>>
>> On Jan 28, 2010, at 11:21 AM, Monis Monther wrote:
>>
>> Steve are you sure about this, in my case this does not work, as they are
>> not saved as rfc281 messages like in quarantine
>>
>> They are stored as message queue files and to retrieve them is a pain
>>
>> Change permission of file to be executable and copy it to the postfix
>> incoming queue (I use postfix), and have to make a customized script to
>> accomplish my need
>>
>> Any advise is appreciated if I am doing something wrong here
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Monis
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Stephen Swaney <steve at fsl.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Richard,
>>> The messages will be stored as individual message files in a text format
>>> in a separate folder for each day
>>> The can be rent by changing to the directory contain the message and
>>> running
>>> sendmail -iot  < [message_file_name]
>>> Steve
>>> On Jan 28, 2010, at 9:09 AM, Richard Sidlin wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I would like to setup mail archiving for one domain. I see from the
>>> instructions that it archives to a folder destination that you specify.
>>> Could someone explain how it saves it (format) and how the messages are
>>> retrieved into either a mail server or mail client?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Richard
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>> Sorry I gave you the wrong information.
>> I thought I was answering one of our clients who had just asked an 
>> archiving
>> question and uses sendmail. Must have been too early in the AM here.
>> Perhaps one of the Postfix experts can assist you.
>> Steve
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> As can be seen here:
> http://www.mailscanner.info/MailScanner.conf.index.html#Archive%20Mail
> ..... the archive mail feature is not that easily described:-). It can
> be individual files, and then will be the MTA format of choice, or
> mbox, depending on how you set it. Or even just a forwarding rule...
>
> But what one need be crystal clear about is that this archive happens
> first, before _ANY_ scanning is done. So releasing stuff from it, or
> including choice parts of it into your MUA is probably not a good
> idea.
> Depending on the needs you have, might I suggest you instead use the
> Non Spam Actions to store a copy of all clean mail? All you need do is
> include "store" in the actions and it'll be stored in your quarantine
> (and in the quarantine format! Manageable through MailWatch!!
> Yay!!!:-):-). The path would be something like
> /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine/<date>/non-spam/<the actual files,
> either queue files or RFC 821-decoded text files>
>
> Cheers
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Thanks Glenn. What I did in the end was to create a subdomain of the domain 
that I wanted to archive and set up a rule to forward a copy i.e. 
*@domain.co.uk to archive at archive.domain.co.uk and that seems to work. I 
basically wanted to offer my clients an archiving solution should their 
Exchange or whatever go down. This way, they can simply log into the 
subdomain to view their mail.