Backup of email

LinuxLover · 09-24-2005, 02:24 AM

I m using postfix on RHEL4

Email is the essence of my organization.

I want to make a backup of every incoming and outgoing email from my server.

Becuase many user require their emails bcause they , some time lost their
copy .

How can I accomplash this task.

(^_^) waiting for

acid_kewpie · 09-24-2005, 02:59 AM

You're an RHCE?

anyway.... just use cron to copy the files to wherever you want... what kind of mailboxes are you using? Maildir's in /home/user/Maildir? boxes in /var/spool/mail ? just tar them up and put them wherever you want.

LinuxLover · 09-24-2005, 03:51 AM

Dear acid_kewpie !!!!

Thanks for ur reply.

I m using mailbox format . mail stored in /var/spool/mail/username

I have already this idea which u mentioned.

But two things confuse me.

1- I can use cron to store /var/spool/mail in remote system. but what if a particular user pop his mails before cron runs. ,(mail will deleted from server)

2-what about outgoing emails these will not store in /var/spool/mail directory

scowles · 09-24-2005, 04:40 AM

Checkout the *_bcc options that can be added to main.cf. In particular: always_bcc