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is it possible to automatically bcc each outgoing/incoming email to an account for archival purposes?

Regards

Chris

chrisdebono wrote:is it possible to automatically bcc each outgoing/incoming email to an account for archival purposes?

Regards

Chris

This will do it for you.

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.

Another caution, if the you let the mailbox get very large (I forgot the exact size, but I believe its 2GB) OR if the that mailbox gets corrupted, then delivery to all your other email addresses will stop (I ran into this problem), because the system cannot deliver to the bcc: address, it will stop delivery to the rest.

I ran into this problem and spent 8 hours rebuilding the email store from scratch for the archive user, so be warned!

hi there,

burhankhalid can you tell me the scalix version you had this problem?
I'am going to archive my emails, too but if this problem is still there in beta2 i have to search for another way to backup the mails.

with regards,
patrik

My mail that is received locally is correctly archived, however mail that is sent to an external domain does not seem to be archived.

I *am* using postfix as a front-end MTA to scalix, so I am not using regular sendmail, but instead postfix's sendmail. Could this be the cause of this? All postfix is doing is handing the email off to Scalix which is running on localhost:26, so it doesn't seem like it should be a factor.

Aaron

Hi Chris,
Thank you for initiating the thread and which I find could be of great benefit for small enterprises. If the above procedure is followed and all outgoing/incoming email are bcc to an external email address,what archival tool and process would you recommend for say a small company of 60 "heavy users".
Best Regards,
Jason.

I have done as instructed but after stopping and starting the archive service I am not getting emails to the bcc address. do I have to stop and start scalix?

It may be best to restart Scalix.

I believe you need to restart the Service Router, as it doesn't by default direct messages to the Archive Server.

Hi

does you general.cfg look a bit like this


Mike

If you want a solution which takes care of archiving all emails in and out of the organization then consider a 3rd party product for Scalix. www.cryoserver.com

Hi,

If I want to bcc to two different email address, is it put a comma behind the first email address as below ?

ARCHIVE=bcc:user1@yourdomain.com,user2@yourdomain.com

Will it slow down the email delivery ? Please advise.

Thanks.

Does this ARCHIVE option in the general.cfg still work for scalix 11? I don't see any "Archiver" services listed in Scalix 11 service status output.

I need to be able to archive all incoming/outgoing mail on a Scalix 11 server, even if it is destined for internal scalix users.

The archiver does not exists in the community edition

The Archiver works correctly in Scalix 11.x. It does exist in the CE as well as all the licensed versions, but the license key will not allow you to run it with a CE license. You will need a commercial license (SBE, EE, HE) for that.

I have set this up as directed with the ARCHIVE=bbc:email@domain.com

and have restarted both services and all it does is build emails up in the archive queue. I have went back and double checked case and spelling on the email account, as it is a local account.

is there something else that needs to be started for this to forward the emails out of that queue to the mailbox? like the ARCHIVE=YES?

Thanks, John