[Dovecot] Input and suggestions: Mail mirror setup

[Ulf Zimmermann]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dovecot-bounces+ulf=openlane.com at dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-
> bounces+ulf=openlane.com at dovecot.org] On Behalf Of Christopher J.
> Buckley
> Sent: 08/30/2008 16:19
> To: dovecot at dovecot.org
> Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Input and suggestions: Mail mirror setup
> 
> Ulf Zimmermann wrote:
> > Hello, everyone.
> >
> > To make life for our operations team easier I am looking at setting
> up a
> > mail mirror of any email which gets sent from certain machines.
> [snip]
> 
> If you really want a "mirror" use rsync.
> 
> What you outline is not a "mirror" at all, but a secondary mailhub,
> with
> a rather convoluted and inappropriate setup. If you wish to create
> distributed mailstores use postfix transports.

No, I am really talking about a copy of any email sent from a number of
machines. Our developers
use all kind of different ways to generate emails and reports and well,
sometimes emails get lost
(to outside customers) and we are getting asked to resend those reports.
Unfortunately too often
these emails or reports are not easy to reproduce and the developers
didn't think of creating copies
of the attached files.

So I am really looking at a copy of any email sent, to be stored at a
central location, which a retention
time of maybe 1 week.

> 
> Read: http://www.postfix.org/transport.5.html
> 
> --
> Kind Regards,           ::   http://www.cjbuckley.net/
> Chris Buckley           ::   http://photos.cjbuckley.net/



Ulf Zimmermann | Senior System Architect

OPENLANE
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