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Hi,

Can anybody explain how archiving works in Scalix?

The docs mention 3rd party viewers, any reccomendations?

thx

The archiving feature of Scalix is provided to allow storage of any message which passes through the Service Router.

p343 of the Administration Guide explains what options you can set in general.cfg.

The basic idea is that the archived message takes the form of a SMTP conversation (this seems to be common amongst 3rd party apps). The general.cfg option for the archiver determines whether the message will be stored to a directory or a single file but it can also be configured to execute a hand-writted script which will handle the message. Another setting will submit the message to the SMTP port of another machine. Typically, this will be the 3rd-party app listening on that port.

Dave Kelly
Senior Support Engineer
Scalix Corporation

The basic configuration of the archiver in general.cfg is pretty straightforward, but I have some questions;

1. It appears that only one method can be chosen; either storing a copy of the message locally OR forking to a script for processing OR handing the message off to an SMTP session on another system. RIght?

2. What if I want to write the message to ~scalix/archive AND copy it to an SMTP server elsewhere?

Opinions/ideas/examples welcomed.

Thanks.

Mark Stingley

mark.stingley wrote:The basic configuration of the archiver in general.cfg is pretty straightforward, but I have some questions;

1. It appears that only one method can be chosen; either storing a copy of the message locally OR forking to a script for processing OR handing the message off to an SMTP session on another system. RIght?

2. What if I want to write the message to ~scalix/archive AND copy it to an SMTP server elsewhere?

Opinions/ideas/examples welcomed.

Thanks.

Mark Stingley

Hi,

forking off a script will allow you do anything you can do with a script, so that would be one way to do it all.

Cheers,

Sascha.