From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 14 13:46:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75EC937B41D for ; Fri, 14 Jun 2002 13:46:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) id g5EKkP7E086710; Fri, 14 Jun 2002 15:46:25 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 15:46:25 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Mark Edwards Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mail archiving suggestions? Message-ID: <20020614204625.GA64898@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20020527113701.GA24194@icarus.slightlystrange.org> <524DC8D1-7FBC-11D6-A009-000A278CC960@antsclimbtree.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <524DC8D1-7FBC-11D6-A009-000A278CC960@antsclimbtree.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 is something my company wants to implement, in case the IMAP folders > become unavailable or cease to exist for some reason. The backup must be > browsable by users immediately, so any kind of "restore" process is not an > option. > > I would prefer to stick with Sendmail for the MTA, but I'm open to > suggestions. My setup is currently UW-IMAP and Sendmail, but I'm willing > to migrate to something else to make this work. 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. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message