Creating a backup of incoming mail

[LuKreme]

On 01 Sep 2014, at 01:33 , Patrick De Zordo <patrick at spamreducer.eu> wrote:

> To backup all mail (incoming and outgoing), BCC all mails, you could do the following..
> 
> Add to your "/etc/postfix/main.cf" the following:
> ---8<-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> # Auto-Backup all mails
> transport_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/transport
> backuplmtp_destination_recipient_limit = 1
> lmtp_destination_recipient_limit = 1
> recipient_bcc_maps = pcre:/etc/postfix/backup_bcc.pcre
> sender_bcc_maps = pcre:/etc/postfix/backup_bcc.pcre
> ---8<-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Create a domain called "backup.local" in postfixadmin or whatever you use to edit your accounts..
> 
> Add every domain for which you like to activate incoming backup to " /etc/postfix/backup_bcc.pcre":
> ---8<-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> /^(.*)@spamreducer\.eu$/      spamreducer.eu at backup.local
> ---8<-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Add to your "/etc/postfix/master.cf" the following:
> ---8<-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> backuplmtp      unix  -       -       n       -       -       lmtp
> ---8<-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Add to your "/etc/postfix/transport" the following:
> ---8<-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [backup.local] backuplmtp
> ---8<-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Don't forget to issue " postmap /etc/postfix/transport"..
> 
> For making folders based on "year/month" you have to use an appropriate sieve script.
> 
> Give me a feedback!

Wow, that is a whole lot more work that what I did with procmail which was practically one line in the /usr/locale/etc/procmailrc right at the top.

YER=`date %Y`
MON=`date %m`

:0c
/backup/mail/$YER/$MON/

I'll start with Sieve (though I still haven't used it) and see what that can do, but this at least I can do, if sieve proves too annoying to get going.

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