well, if i were you, i'd tell him to bloody archive it himself - i make it pretty clear to customers that we don't take responsibility for making sure their stuff is secured like that. at the very least, tell him to pay you (up front) for both the time required to implement the solution as well as the cost of all associated equipment and media, and make sure you work out a contract that limits your liability in case you botch it up. but it's not that hard, really. all you really have to do is CC a copy of every message to a maildir (just add a line in the dot-qmail-default). when the maildir gets up around 550-600 mb, copy all the files to another directory and offload them to tape/cd/whatever. there's probably a better way to do it, but i'd bet this is the simplest. i'd let the customer worry about any archiving/indexing, unless you do that sort of thing for a living, in which case i'm sure you already know how to do it and how much to bill for it :) shag ===== Judd Bourgeois | CNM Network +1 (805) 520-7170 Software Architect | 1900 Los Angeles Avenue, 2nd Floor [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Simi Valley, CA 93065 Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur. ----- Original Message ----- From: Denis Voitenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wed 17 Nov 1999 23.18 Subject: Archiving all incoming and outgoing mail... Quite an unusual problem. > My client has demanded a very strange thing. He wants to archive all > incoming and outgoing mail that goes thru the qmail server (installed and > configured by me). He has a small LAN of 20+ people but the mail traffic is > pretty heavy since there is a ton of AutoCad 2K documents attached to mail > :-) I told him that is was generally not a great idea 'cause the mail server > has only 6 gigs of space but he said he'd be willing to burn stale stuff on > CD's. So technically I have no choice but to make it work. Now, how in the > world do I do this? > > Should I create some account like archive and rewrite headers (maybe add BCC > field) of all mail? The system runs maildir so I think archiving files will > not be a major problem... > > Denis Voitenko > Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >
