Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 20:21:13 -0700 From: Mark Edwards <mark@antsclimbtree.com> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mail archiving suggestions? Message-ID: <F21A1195-800E-11D6-8541-000A278CC960@antsclimbtree.com> In-Reply-To: <20020614213534.GE64898@dan.emsphone.com>
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On Friday, June 14, 2002, at 02:35 PM, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Jun 14), Mark Edwards said: >> On Friday, June 14, 2002, at 01:46 PM, Dan Nelson wrote: >>> In the last episode (Jun 14), Mark Edwards said: >>>> Can anyone suggest some schemes to run an IMAP mail server that >>>> creates a backup or archival copy of each mail incoming and >>>> outgoing? I already have nightly and weekly backups of all the >>>> files on the server, but I want to be sending a copy (BCC) of >>>> each incoming and outgoing mail to a "backup" user, which can >>>> then be downloaded via POP to a client machine for emergency >>>> purposes. >>> >>> This sounds like something you could write a Sendmail milter for; >>> the sample milter in /usr/src/contrib/sendmail/libmilter/README >>> could be modified to send the message to a secondary server instead >>> of logging to a file. >> >> Thank you. Can you point me to a decent tutorial for getting started >> with milters? Is sendmail.org the best info available? > > Docs included with sendmail are located at: > > /usr/src/contrib/sendmail/libmilter/README > /usr/src/contrib/sendmail/libmilter/docs/*.html > > There's also a web site at http://www.milter.org , but it's basically > just a forum. No docs yet. Okay, I've read through the docs. Honestly, I'm wondering if there is an easier way do achieve this. Do any MTA's implement filtering and archiving of email by default, or in some easier way than writing a milter? I haven' t found obvious evidence that postfix or qmail do this. Thanks. -- Mark Edwards San Francisco, CA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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