MailScanner Archive Option

[Jules Field]

On 29/01/2010 22:50, Monis Monther wrote:
> Dear Jules:
>
> Thanks for your response , I have this option set to no
>
> Quarantine Whole Messages As Queue Files = no
>
> Quarantine saves messages as RFC 822 messages (which is very nice)
>
> But archived messages are still saved as queue files and to retrieve 
> them is hard.
The whole point of the Archive Mail setting is to provide a copy of the 
message in *exactly* the state in which MailScanner found it. To convert 
the raw queue file into an RFC 822 message involves a lot of 
interpretation and processing, which may go wrong. So the "Archive Mail" 
setting works the way it does by design. If the message interpretation 
went wrong and your Archive got screwed as a result, you would have no 
way of recovering the original messages.

If you want to store the messages in RFC 822 format, use the "store" 
action in non-spam actions, spam actions and high-spam actions. This can 
be told to store it into whatever directory structure you like, read all 
the docs for the "store" action in the MailScanner.conf file, it's very 
flexible.
>
> Any help please
>
> These are my Archive settings from MailScanner.conf
>
> Archive Mail = /var/spool/MailScanner/archive
> Missing Mail Archive Is = directory
>
>
>
>
> Glenn: your approach might be interesting to store only clean messages 
> in quarantine
>
>
> Thanks for everyone
>
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Julian Field 
> <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk <mailto:MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk>> wrote:
>
>
>
>     On 28/01/2010 15:21, 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
>
>     Suggest you take a look at this option in MailScanner.conf:
>
>     # When you quarantine an entire message, do you want to store it as
>     # raw mail queue files (so you can easily send them onto users) or
>     # as human-readable files (header then body in 1 file)?
>     Quarantine Whole Messages As Queue Files = yes
>
>
>         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
>         <mailto:steve at fsl.com> <mailto:steve at fsl.com
>         <mailto: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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