Actually, I've tried to use scripts to filter emails for a user after she's lost all her email in her computer. As I've mentioned before, if the user is in the bcc list, we may not be able to find any info of this user from the email header. My script has to go through the send log in order to find out which email the user should has received and who's the sender. Then by comparing the time stamp and the sender of emails, I can locate the email.
My worry is that the possibility of getting wrong email is still high. For example, if a sender sent multiple emails, with different sizes, within short period of time, will the send log record emails in way which is different from the time stamp of the email files?
Would anyone show me a better way to filter out the emails?
Best regards,
Bill
On 11/13/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I use the following line in taps to backup all incoming / outgoing emails
> of
> my.domain.com:
>
> .*: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> My questions are:
>
> 1. Will it create an endless loop if, by any means, someone sends
> email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]?
Don't know, test it!
> 2. Can I specify a directory, instead of a email ID, as the
> destination, such as "([EMAIL PROTECTED]):/backup/$1" ?
I think you can't but you can allways make a an email account and modify
it's .qmail for putting all the mail on a specific maildir or whatever
> 3. If I need to restore emails (both incoming and outgoing) for a
> user, what's the best way to filter it out from the backup? Problem
> here is
> that emails were forwarded to the [EMAIL PROTECTED]. The
> information of recipient will be lost if he/she was only in the cc or
> bcc
> list.
Tap is not thought exactly for backups and restores.
Is for archiving (say, monitoring, legal obligations, limited backup of
certain email etc)
I'm certainly sure that you can allways make scripts for finding specific
e-mails, anyway.
> 4. If I can't use taps to backup / rstore my users' email in that way,
> is there any utility that I can use?
A plain old backup utility should work, tar for example.
I use amanda (http://www.amanda.org/) for network backups of whole racks
and works like a charm, but you can allways use a priopietary one like
Veritas BackupExec or something like that.
> Thanks in advance.
> Best regards,
> Bill
>
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