Overrideing pop delete?

[Jochen Bern]

On 12/15/2018 12:34 AM, @lbutlr wrote:
> On 14 Dec 2018, at 16:30, @lbutlr <kremels at kreme.com> wrote:
>> Is it possible to override the POP3 delete on download command and make
>> sure that messages stay on the server for at least X hours or X days?
>> It is important that the messages be around long enough to hit a snapshot
>> cycle (using rsnapshot to backup ever hour).
> 
> Now that I think about it, even better would be a way to move the messages
> into an archive box when they are downloaded, this way they will be entirely
> invisible from the POP3 access, and I can use normal expiry functions to
> clean out that archive after backup.

From a data flow (and privacy protection) POV, that wouldn't be much
different anymore from having *the MTA* feed a copy of (all incoming)
e-mails directly into an archiving mechanism, would it?

http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#always_bcc

Regards,
-- 
Jochen Bern
Systemingenieur

www.binect.de
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