A Quick Archival Question

[propagandhi]

Hi People,

Here's the thing. I've got no problem archiving inbound messages. We're archiving now in three places. We've got a standalone scalix server that has a mirror of all of our users, and we forward copies of all inbound mail to that server, thereby maintaining a full user backup of all inbound mail, as it comes in.

We are also using the built in archival functions to maintain archives on a per day basis which are stored on a samba mounted NAS.

We then maintain full backups of user mailboxes daily.

However, here's the main thing we want to achieve, and that is - we want to also be able to archive all sent mail that the user sends. Ideally I'd want all mail the user sents out to be archived in a sent folder for the user on our existing full user archive, but I'm open to any feedback you can provide on how to permanently archive all outbound email!!

Cheers,

Patrick

[mikevl]

Have a look at page 153 of the Scalix Admin Guide 11.0.2
All messages are captured in & out cause they pass through the Service Router

Mike

[mikevl]

PS if youi use SMTP then the mail address could eith be an external archiving server or a mailbox on your scalix server.

Mike

[propagandhi]

Thank you so much for the replies.

I had not realised that outbound mail was also being captured.

However, is there a technique that exists that would allow for the sent mail to be archived on a per user basis?

At the moment I can see that the archival happens in a per-day folder.

Also, is it possible to specify multiple archive methods? In saying this I mean, can you not only use the bcc: mode but also use the file: mode??

Cheers In Advance

Patrick

[mikevl]

If you use either an internal or external SMTO archive server then you will be easily able to sort by person.

Mike

[propagandhi]

Ok, sorry for this, but how do you restore a message from the file based archive for a user?

[mikevl]

From memory the file based messages are in MIME format.

You should hopefully be able to feed them into the Scalix smtp port

mail -s :message" resubuser@sombody.com < /var/op/scalix......../meaasgeyouwant

Hope this helps. I have not tried this

Mike

[Valerion]

It's not just in MIME, but contains all the envelope information needed as well. Therefore I would suggest

cat <filename> | sendmail -bs

Just remember the Local Delivery service keeps a list of recently delivered emails and won't deliver duplicates. This cache does expire, though. There is some hints elsewhere on how to clear the cache.