Hello everybody, This is my first post to this group. I hav a problem concerning the archival of emails. I hav been assigned a project to develop a solution to archive emails on a HP-UX system. So, Ihav started work on it on my RedHat Fedora Core 1 system, since I don't hav an HP-UX box. I am trying to test some opensource solutions and take help from them. Some of these are Aemail, Powermail, mairix etc.
Some issues in front of me are :
1. I want all of u, who can help, to come forward and suggest ur own approach to this problem of email archival.
2. I am trying to test both Powermail and Aemail, available at the GNU website, but i am having problem making them run.
a)In case of Aemail, I am having trouble configuring and administering PostgreSQl for using with Aemail. b)In case of Powermail, I am having trouble configuring Powermail to interact with MySQL in the correct manner.
3)Can anyone of u suggest ant other opensource solutions to handle the problem of email archival?
4) I am currently developing a solution of my own where i use Archmbox, another opensource product under GPL, to archive mails from an mbox file and compress it. then i encrypt it and send it over to a storage server. Before archival, all the emails are indexed on the basis of their date, sender and subject in a simple text file. And whenever the person wants to restore the archived email, he can search the indexfile to find the compressed file which contains the particular email.So then it can be downloaded from the storage server ( maye an ftp server) and then decomressed, decrypted to get the original mail back. can u ppl suggest any improvments in this plan of action? or whether a database can be used, if yes, where?
with regards, sushant gulati
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Evening Sushant,
You can achive this on HP UX also...
Archiving can be done with Big brother patch or you can make changes in sendmail's cf file straight ( if your HP UX box is configured to run sendmail ).
Regards, Animesh.
--- Sushant Gulati sushant_is@yahoo.com wrote:
Hello everybody, This is my first post to this group. I hav a problem concerning the archival of emails. I hav been assigned a project to develop a solution to archive emails on a HP-UX system. So, Ihav started work on it on my RedHat Fedora Core 1 system, since I don't hav an HP-UX box. I am trying to test some opensource solutions and take help from them. Some of these are Aemail, Powermail, mairix etc.
Some issues in front of me are :
- I want all of u, who can help, to come forward
and suggest ur own approach to this problem of email archival.
- I am trying to test both Powermail and Aemail,
available at the GNU website, but i am having problem making them run.
a)In case of Aemail, I am having trouble configuring and administering PostgreSQl for using with Aemail. b)In case of Powermail, I am having trouble configuring Powermail to interact with MySQL in the correct manner.
3)Can anyone of u suggest ant other opensource solutions to handle the problem of email archival?
- I am currently developing a solution of my own
where i use Archmbox, another opensource product under GPL, to archive mails from an mbox file and compress it. then i encrypt it and send it over to a storage server. Before archival, all the emails are indexed on the basis of their date, sender and subject in a simple text file. And whenever the person wants to restore the archived email, he can search the indexfile to find the compressed file which contains the particular email.So then it can be downloaded from the storage server ( maye an ftp server) and then decomressed, decrypted to get the original mail back. can u ppl suggest any improvments in this plan of action? or whether a database can be used, if yes, where?
with regards, sushant gulati
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Hi Sushant,
On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 18:49, Sushant Gulati wrote:
Some issues in front of me are :
- I want all of u, who can help, to come forward and
suggest ur own approach to this problem of email archival.
If you can use Postfix as your smtp server you can use following config in main.cf
always_bcc = arvhive@your.domain
This will send a copy of each mail to the mailbox of user archive.
This mailbox can be accessed using simple POP/IMAP server.
HTH With regards,
Hi Sushant,
Archival problem can be solved in postfix more elegantly with following maps
sender_bcc_maps http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#sender_bcc_maps
recipient_bcc_maps http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#recipient_bcc_maps
you can integrate these maps with popular databases directly.
On 18 Nov 2005 20:26:07 +0530, Dinesh Shah Dinesh@shahmicro.com wrote:
Hi Sushant,
On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 18:49, Sushant Gulati wrote:
Some issues in front of me are :
- I want all of u, who can help, to come forward and
suggest ur own approach to this problem of email archival.
If you can use Postfix as your smtp server you can use following config in main.cf
always_bcc = arvhive@your.domainThis will send a copy of each mail to the mailbox of user archive.
This mailbox can be accessed using simple POP/IMAP server.
HTH With regards, -- --Dinesh Shah :-) Dinesh@ShahMicro.com Shah Micro System +91-98213-11906
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