MailScanner Archive Option

[Monis Monther]

Thanks Jules



On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Jules Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk>wrote:

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> On 29/01/2010 22:50, Monis Monther wrote:
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>> 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:
>>
>>
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>>    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
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>>        <mailto:steve at fsl.com>>> wrote:
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>>           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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>>           Steve
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