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My boss has heard of a mail program that has a "mailbag" feature. Has anyone ever heard of this before? It's a feature that lets one server receive all the mail and forward it on to another server and was explained to me as an option for disaster recovery. Does scalix do anything like this? My big question....can anyone give me any ideas why you would want this feature? Does anyone know if this is something that is commonly used? I've never head of it.

Thanks

Hi,

I have not heard of that being called a mailbag feature, but then again, you never stop learning. I think what the boss may have heard was something about a secondary or backup mail exchange record. This is really a DNS issue and not so much a product issue per se. Yes, you can setup a Linux machine running Scalix to relay mail to other domains. So, I think the correct answer here is, yes, it does.

Cheers,

Sascha.

actually, i think there might be a way.

check the admin guide on the server general.cfg setting; there is a description of an archiving feature. this makes it possible to send a copy of each message passing through our service router (and that's every message) over to someone else, either by a full SMTP conversation or via a BCC mechanism to a archive mailbox. both would serve as a mailbag. standard disclaimers about data privacy concerns apply.

-- f.

The tweak to the general.cfg file did not make it into the release 10 admin guide.

The undocumented feature to archive is achieved by adding:

archive=bcc:name@domain.com

in your in /var/opt/scalix/sys/general.cfg file, then restart the archive server by typing:

omoff -d0 archiver
omon archiver

Now, any mail sent from a Scalix user, whether internal or external, will automatically get bcc'ed to name@domain.com. The archive address could be either an external or scalix mailbox. Caution is advised as the mailbox will like get very large very quickly.

Regards,
Don

Is this for only mail sent or for both sent and recieved?

this is for all mail that passes through the service router - i.e. all mail in transport.

-- f.

Does this command also archive incoming mail? Is there a way to archive mail for specfic users/addresses only?

Yes - incoming mail (assume you're talking about Internet mail here) comes in through the SMTP relay and incoming Internet mail gateway before it passes through the router and is being archived.

Scalix does not offer filtering of this stream; we expect filtering to be done by the external system that the data stream is pointed to. The BCC mechanism is only one possibl.e mechanism - check the admin guide - email can also be pushed out over an SMTP conversation or to a script - either of those is where filtering would be done.

Florian.