~user/.procmailrc-backup or /etc/procmailrc-backup
MDIR="${HOME}/.maildir"
TODAY_YEAR=date +%Y
TODAY_MONTH=date +%m
TODAY_DAY=date +%d
# prepare the archive
:0
{
dummy=(p="${MDIR}/.archive.$TODAY_YEAR.$TODAY_MONTH.$TODAY_DAY"; if [ ! -d $p ]; then mkdir -p $p; fi;) 2>/dev/null
dummy=`if [ ! $(grep $(date '+archive.%Y.%m.%d')
$HOME/.maildir/subscriptions) ]; then echo $(date '+archive.%Y.%m.%d')
$HOME/.maildir/subscriptions; fi`
:0c
${MDIR}/.archive.$TODAY_YEAR.$TODAY_MONTH.$TODAY_DAY/}
On 02/10/2011 02:41 AM, Oli Schacher wrote:
On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 09:15:18 +0200 Alexander Chekalin achekalin@lazurit.com wrote:
in my company we have a mailbox that holds a copy of every message that our SMTP processed. While it eats a lot of space, it saved us several times when, you may imaging, user "suddenly" deleted the most important message in his life and call our IT guys for help. The mailbox contains "folders" for each day (like 2011-02-10), which keeps mailings for that day only. [...]
What you are describing is basically a standard mail archiving service. Instead of building this yourself you could look at existing software tools that include the features you describe and offer additional functionality like attachment indexing, signed archives etc. For example Mailarchiva (mailarchiva.com) - There is an open source version as well ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/openmailarchiva/ ) Google lists various other alternatives.
HTH
Regards, Oli