[Dovecot] mail archiving
Im curious if anyone is archiving emails and what they are using. I
currently utilize sendmail/procmail/dovecot.
thanks,
ddh
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On Friday 09 October 2009 17:18:53 dhottinger@harrisonburg.k12.va.us wrote:
Im curious if anyone is archiving emails and what they are using. I currently utilize sendmail/procmail/dovecot.
What exactly do you mean by archiving?
We use Postfix and Dovecot to backup any sent and received mail for our users. Postfix, using sender_bcc_maps, resends any mail to the sending user via an address extension (i.e. mail sent by foo@example.org gets resent to foo+sent@example.org) and Dovecot with Sieve, using the sieve_before directive, filters such sent mail into a private namespace that is hidden from the user (Backup/sent).
Backing up received mail works very similar (ending up in Backup/received) but Postfix is not involved; this is a job for Sieve alone, again using the sieve_before directive and an appropriate script.
So Postfix/Dovecot/Sieve. If ACLs worked a bit better in 1.2.x [1] I could even make the Backup namespace visible to its user and just ensure, via ACLs, that the user cannot delete any messages in this namespace. But this'll have to wait for 2.0 I believe.
Does that answer your question?
Andreas
[1] http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2009-September/042783.html
Andreas Ntaflos
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Could you show us an example how do you do this ? I'm really intersted in such solution.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Andreas Ntaflos" daff@dword.org To: dovecot@dovecot.org Sent: Saturday, October 10, 2009 8:30:43 AM Subject: Re: [Dovecot] mail archiving
On Friday 09 October 2009 17:18:53 dhottinger@harrisonburg.k12.va.us wrote:
Im curious if anyone is archiving emails and what they are using. I currently utilize sendmail/procmail/dovecot.
What exactly do you mean by archiving?
We use Postfix and Dovecot to backup any sent and received mail for our users. Postfix, using sender_bcc_maps, resends any mail to the sending user via an address extension (i.e. mail sent by foo@example.org gets resent to foo+sent@example.org) and Dovecot with Sieve, using the sieve_before directive, filters such sent mail into a private namespace that is hidden from the user (Backup/sent).
Backing up received mail works very similar (ending up in Backup/received) but Postfix is not involved; this is a job for Sieve alone, again using the sieve_before directive and an appropriate script.
So Postfix/Dovecot/Sieve. If ACLs worked a bit better in 1.2.x [1] I could even make the Backup namespace visible to its user and just ensure, via ACLs, that the user cannot delete any messages in this namespace. But this'll have to wait for 2.0 I believe.
Does that answer your question?
Andreas
[1] http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2009-September/042783.html
Andreas Ntaflos
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On 10/10/2009 3:14 AM, Nikolai K. Bochev wrote:
What exactly do you mean by archiving?
We use Postfix and Dovecot to backup any sent and received mail for our users.
Could you show us an example how do you do this ? I'm really interested in such solution.
Same here... !
In fact this would be an awesome contribution to the wiki, and I hope you will agree and can find the time to write something up, it would be very much appreciated by many I think.
Thanks!
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Best regards,
Charles
On Saturday 10 October 2009 14:33:16 Charles Marcus wrote:
On 10/10/2009 3:14 AM, Nikolai K. Bochev wrote:
What exactly do you mean by archiving?
We use Postfix and Dovecot to backup any sent and received mail for our users.
Could you show us an example how do you do this ? I'm really interested in such solution.
Same here... !
In fact this would be an awesome contribution to the wiki, and I hope you will agree and can find the time to write something up, it would be very much appreciated by many I think.
Ok, I'll get on it and create a HOWTO in the Dovecot wiki, based on my internal documentation. I will have to organise my thoughts a bit first, though :)
Andreas
Andreas Ntaflos
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On 10/10/2009, Andreas Ntaflos (daff@dword.org) wrote:
Ok, I'll get on it and create a HOWTO in the Dovecot wiki, based on my internal documentation. I will have to organise my thoughts a bit first, though :)
Cool! I'll be a test case for it... I have finally gotten the go ahead to replace Courier with Dovecot at my biggest Client, but he's given me a target date of Dec 1, so it will be a few weeks, which will give me time to test everything, including the archiving piece.
Thanks Andreas!
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Andreas Ntaflos
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Charles Marcus
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dhottinger＠harrisonburg.k12.va.us
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Nikolai K. Bochev