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MailScanner Email Archive

Hello All,

There is one option in Mailscanner called mailarchive which looks like

#
# Mail Archiving and Monitoring
# -----------------------------
#

# Space-separated list of any combination of
# 1. email addresses to which mail should be forwarded,
# 2. directory names where you want mail to be stored,
# 3. file names (they must already exist!) to which mail will be appended
# in "mbox" format suitable for most Unix mail systems.
#
# If you give this option a ruleset, you can control exactly whose mail
# is archived or forwarded. If you do this, beware of the legal implications
# as this could be deemed to be illegal interception unless the police have
# asked you to do this.
#Archive Mail = /var/spool/MailScanner/archive
Archive Mail =/backup/mailarchive/emails

Right now as you can see I am storing all emails but thats not I want , I wanted to store specific emails like

my email address is

abc@abc.com so any thing send or receive by abc@abc.com should be saved in /backup/mailarchive/abc-mailaccount/emails

I know there is a way but there isnt much information, please help me in this matter.

Thanks

Pablo Allietti

yep but no with Mailscanner, Mailscanner save entire mailboxes of all users.

if you add in the file /etc/aliases for example

realuser: realuser, backupuser

you have a replica of your mailbox in /var/mail/backupuser

after that you can copy and move anywere.

remeber to execute after modifications newaliasesscript in console prompt

wcws

ASKER

According to your statement you can only save the emails which are coming in ? not outgoing.

I am pretty sure you can do it with MailScanner I've read somewhere but I am not too sure.

Pablo Allietti

ohhhh i unsertand now.

check that

http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/serve/cache/177.html

wcws

ASKER

I've tried the following

FromOrTo: email@email.com yes forward /backup/emailarchive/email.mbx

and I've tried

FromOrTo: email@email.com /backup/emailarchive/email.mbx

Bothways Its not saving any emails also I've also edit the MailScanner.conf file and define the path and everything but still its not saving any emails please let me know what did I do wrong.

Thanks

Pablo Allietti

no nothing this is the rigth sintaxis. you restart Mailscanner?

wcws

ASKER

yes,

Pablo Allietti

ok

you add the file archive.rules in

/etc/mail/Mailscanner/rules/ ???

or in your rules folder?

and the sintaxis are wrong. sorry for comment before that i not realize about this the sintax are

FromOrTo: pablouruguay@yahoo.com yes
From: pablito@yahoo.com no
To: myhome@yahoo.com yes
FromOrTo: default /var/spool/MailScanner/archive/archive.mbx

wcws

ASKER

ok I've a email address in my server which is

email@email.com

so Will I do like this

FromOrTo: email@email.com yes
FromOrTo: default /var/spool/MailScanner/archive/archive.mbx

What does default means will that means It will archive every single emails sending and receiving from my server ? If yes then thats what I dont want. I want only 1 email account to be archive i.e. its sending and receiving.

Thanks

wcws

ASKER

yes, I did add the archive.rules in my MailScanner.conf as well in rules folder.

Pablo Allietti

ok, leave this question open i will in vacation until monday, and i answer other experts about these question, in monday i bet to have the answer :)

wcws

ASKER

wow

wcws

ASKER

Is there any one , please

wcws

ASKER

This is a right solution

Into MailScanner.conf:
Archive Mail = /usr/local/etc/MailScanner/rules/arch.rules
where /usr/local/etc/MailScanner/rules/ - rules directory - in Linux may by in
another place

Into arch.rules:
FromOrTo: abc@abc.com /backup/mailarchive/abc-mailaccount/emails
FromOrTo: qqq@www.com /some/another/place

I've able to do this myself ?

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and ??? what happend with this?

SYSHALL

Hi there
I have done the proposed solution to archive mail as mentioned above and it works, however now i want to be enabled to restore some of the mail which has attached files inside the mail, how do i do that? i have samba setup on tis machine so that i can access/copy the folder holding the messages to a winclient with for example Thunderbird or Express, do i have to auto rename the files, convert or what? i can open the mail in express with the extension .eml ,but the attached file is included in the entire message and not as a file?

PLS help i really need to have this solved.

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Thanks for helping

SYSHALL

Hi
Ok i resolved it myselv, if anyone is intressted read below:
I read somewhere that the mbx format was supported as eduora mail and
I installed Netscape messenger 4.51 since this was the only app i knew supported this format and voaila, the mailbox was imported with attacment in mails and everything.

Bye