Re: [Courier-imap] Preventing Deletes?

2007-10-02 Thread Phillip B Oldham 

Jay

Thanks for that. It looks like it might be the perfect solution.

Phill

Jay Lee wrote:

Phill wrote:
Thanks Jay. Yes, I'll hopefully be using the full Courier package for 
ease of maintenance.


You wouldn't happen to know of any documentation for this feature I 
can browse?


Best documentation on the feature is directly in the 
/etc/courier/courierd file:


##NAME: ARCHIVEDIR:0
#
#  This is the big-brother option that saves a copy of EACH and EVERY
#  message passing through the system.  Uncomment ARCHIVEDIR, and after
#  a message is delivered, its queue and data file is moved to ARCHIVEDIR
#  instead of being deleted.  You must create the ARCHIVEDIR directory
#  yourself, and it must be owned by the "daemon" userid.
#
#  Also, ARCHIVEDIR *MUST* be on the same partition/volume as Courier's
#  mail queue directory.
#
#  All messages will be saved into a flat directory, with one 
subdirectory

#  created each calendar day.  Therefore, you will need to make sure that
#  your filesystem can handle it.  Each message consists of two files,
#  the control file, and the message data file.  The Linux ext2 
filesystem,

#  for example, will start to have problems once there are more than
#  32,000 files in the same directory, so if your system carries a higher
#  daily volume, you'll need to purge out the archive subdirectory 
several

#  times a day.
#
#  If you fill up an archive directory, mail will continue to move, but
#  not archived.  Caveat emptor.
#
#ARCHIVEDIR="/var/backup/allmail"




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Re: [Courier-imap] Preventing Deletes?

2007-10-02 Thread Tony Earnshaw 
Phill skrev, on 02-10-2007 16:02:

> Thanks Jay. Yes, I'll hopefully be using the full Courier package for 
> ease of maintenance.
> 
> You wouldn't happen to know of any documentation for this feature I can 
> browse?

>>> I'm wondering if you guys can help me. I've been googling for the 
>>> last week, and have tried a couple of forums, but haven't had much luck.

Well, I do this with rsync on the one hand to have a week's worth of 24 
hour immediate backups for people who delete things and regret and then 
permanent DLT backups

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Re: [Courier-imap] Preventing Deletes?

2007-10-02 Thread Jay Lee 
Phill wrote:
> Thanks Jay. Yes, I'll hopefully be using the full Courier package for 
> ease of maintenance.
>
> You wouldn't happen to know of any documentation for this feature I 
> can browse?

Best documentation on the feature is directly in the 
/etc/courier/courierd file:

##NAME: ARCHIVEDIR:0
#
#  This is the big-brother option that saves a copy of EACH and EVERY
#  message passing through the system.  Uncomment ARCHIVEDIR, and after
#  a message is delivered, its queue and data file is moved to ARCHIVEDIR
#  instead of being deleted.  You must create the ARCHIVEDIR directory
#  yourself, and it must be owned by the "daemon" userid.
#
#  Also, ARCHIVEDIR *MUST* be on the same partition/volume as Courier's
#  mail queue directory.
#
#  All messages will be saved into a flat directory, with one subdirectory
#  created each calendar day.  Therefore, you will need to make sure that
#  your filesystem can handle it.  Each message consists of two files,
#  the control file, and the message data file.  The Linux ext2 filesystem,
#  for example, will start to have problems once there are more than
#  32,000 files in the same directory, so if your system carries a higher
#  daily volume, you'll need to purge out the archive subdirectory several
#  times a day.
#
#  If you fill up an archive directory, mail will continue to move, but
#  not archived.  Caveat emptor.
#
#ARCHIVEDIR="/var/backup/allmail"


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Re: [Courier-imap] Preventing Deletes?

2007-10-02 Thread Phill 
Thanks Jay. Yes, I'll hopefully be using the full Courier package for 
ease of maintenance.

You wouldn't happen to know of any documentation for this feature I can 
browse?

Phill

Jay Lee wrote:
> Phill wrote:
>> I'm wondering if you guys can help me. I've been googling for the 
>> last week, and have tried a couple of forums, but haven't had much luck.
>>   
>
> This should probably be done at the MTA level instead of IMAP.  If 
> you're using the full Courier-MTA package, take a look at the 
> ARCHIVEDIR option in /etc/courier/courierd.  If you're using some 
> other MTA, there should be some way of preserving all 
> incoming/outgoing messages.
>
> Jay
>

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Re: [Courier-imap] Preventing Deletes?

2007-10-02 Thread Jay Lee 
Phill wrote:
> I'm wondering if you guys can help me. I've been googling for the last 
> week, and have tried a couple of forums, but haven't had much luck.
>   

This should probably be done at the MTA level instead of IMAP.  If 
you're using the full Courier-MTA package, take a look at the ARCHIVEDIR 
option in /etc/courier/courierd.  If you're using some other MTA, there 
should be some way of preserving all incoming/outgoing messages.

Jay

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