Hello Graeme, On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:18:36 +0100 Graeme Fowler wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 16:44 +0900, Christian Balzer wrote: > > So how do people keep a backup (meaning only mails that actually got a > > final delivery, splitting things off earlier is trivial of course) of > > incoming mails on a remote server then? > > I guess this depends upon what you define as "final delivery", doesn't > it? Do you mean: > > A. Only take a backup copy of a message once it has successfully > completed delivery into a user's mailbox, or That's the one. Thus me staring (vainly) at the shadow transport, since it would guarantee that. I need a precise backup for things like SOX and also to avoid people whining about finding a mail in their archive which they never saw in their actual mailbox (because it was full at the time for example). [dual router with unseen] > It's not a great stretch of logic to change the transport to be a remote > one. > Ayup, or in my case I could do this even further upstream on the MX. Alas it is not what I want/need. > I guess you could invert the sequence, and make the *actual* delivery > "unseen" and then do the remote one but that would make error handling > more difficult. > Guess "more difficult" is putting it mildly. ;) I wonder if I could deliver it locally with a shadow transport to a place that in turn triggers a remote delivery via .forward file or some such? Regards, Christian -- Christian Balzer Network/Systems Engineer NOC [email protected] Global OnLine Japan/Fusion Network Services http://www.gol.com/ https://secure3.gol.com/mod-pl/ols/index.cgi/?intr_id=F-2ECXvzcr6656 -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
