Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 14:05:52 -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: <82AF0332-7FDA-11D6-A009-000A278CC960@antsclimbtree.com> In-Reply-To: <20020614204625.GA64898@dan.emsphone.com>
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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 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. Thank you. Can you point me to a decent tutorial for getting started with milters? Is sendmail.org the best info available? -- 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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