I use the notify plugin as a base to my plugin.

So, i need the filename from the expunged mail, to use to search my other file to erase.

What's the way to find the filename ? I thy to get by i_stream_get_name, but i'm lost with the input istream to get this.

2010/6/25 Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi>

On Mon, 2010-06-21 at 17:27 -0300, Alex Baule wrote:

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Hello everyone.....

I Need to know when a email is expunge, but i don't need change this action. I Need to call another action + the default action.

There is a plugin to do this ?

In v2.0 there is a notify plugin which you can pretty easily use to catch expunge events. mail_log plugin also uses it.

It depens where dovecot are storing the email!

Do you know where is it ?

post the output of

# dovecot -n

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On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 8:35 PM, Angelo Chen <angelochen961@gmail.com>wrote:

hi,

i have a ubuntu server running Dovecot imap, how to backup everybody's email? rsync /home is enough? Thanks,

Angelo

On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 14:27 +0800, Angelo Chen wrote:

auth default: passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd

You're using system accounts so yes, but I'd hope that if server is on any importance you would be doing more than just backing up that. /home /etc /var/mail or where ever your MTA stores its mail before users get it should be backed up daily at a bare minimum.

If this is a server of importance you should be doing nightly tar backups of at least /etc, once a week a full rsync of the entire box, and a nightly rsync of your mail store, in your case /home and /var/mail (or /var/spool/postfix if you're using that), and use that on a rolling 7 day basis... providing you have the space for it on your backup server.

Cheers

On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 22:28 +0800, Angelo Chen wrote:

Hi Noel,

I use exim4 and it delivers right into ~/.Maildir, so I assume /home contains all the emails, right? why we need to back up /etc and /var/mail? Thanks,

No real experience with Exim, last time I looked at it was 10 years ago, but if that's where it stores all received messages, read or new-unread, then /home it is.

/etc contains most of your system config stuff, always good idea to back it up, if this is a server it should have no GUI crap installed so it should be fairly small, and /var/vmail was an example only, just like i'd say /var/www if this was a web server, or /var/named if DNS server. /var/mail /var/vmail etc is not applicable to you as you use system and not virtual users.

Cheers

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You're using system accounts so yes, but I'd hope that if server is on any importance you would be doing more than just backing up that. /home /etc /var/mail or where ever your MTA stores its mail before users get it should be backed up daily at a bare minimum.

If this is a server of importance you should be doing nightly tar backups of at least /etc, once a week a full rsync of the entire box, and a nightly rsync of your mail store, in your case /home and /var/mail (or /var/spool/postfix if you're using that), and use that on a rolling 7 day basis... providing you have the space for it on your backup server.

Cheers

Great... its work

Now i need a header value too, i see in mail_log plugin, some functions to get headers value...

but it's a enum with some know fields.

There is some function like this mail_get_special, to get a header value ?

like "get_header_value(mail,"HEADERFIELD", &value);" ??

2010/6/29 Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi>

On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 12:59 -0300, Alex Baule wrote:

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I use the notify plugin as a base to my plugin.

So, i need the filename from the expunged mail, to use to search my other file to erase.

What's the way to find the filename ? I thy to get by i_stream_get_name, but i'm lost with the input istream to get this.

This gives you the base filename:

mail_get_special(mail, MAIL_FETCH_UIDL_FILE_NAME, &fname)