Carl St-Jacques <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Aaron Stone wrote: > >>Carl St-Jacques <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> >>>Is there any plan to add some parameters to dbmail-smtp like the >>>mailboxes name for recipient or for sender. The idea is this.... Have a >>>backup of all the emails I sent under the "Sent" mailbox and all the >>>emails I received under "INBOX" mailbox. >>> >> >>When you send a message, your mail client will usually save a copy of that >>message into a "Sent" folder that you can specify. When a message is >>received, dbmail-smtp will deliver that message to your INBOX, unless you >>specify an alternate mailbox using the '-m' option. >> >>I'm not sure why you want dbmail-smtp to touch your outgoing mail. Perhaps >>you can explain this more clearly? > > The idea is to use dbmail has a backup. This email backup will have all > the emails received and sent by a user with the smtp server. All the > emails received will go in the INBOX and all the emails sent will go in > the Sent mailbox. In the event a user loose all his/her emails because > of a hardware or software failure the user will be able to connect to > dbmail and recover them. Thanks for the -m option, I'm now able to do > what I want.
Sounds like you have a custom solution with interesting shell scripting to glue this all together! If you'd like to share your solution, I'm sure other people on the mailng list would be interested in how you applied DBMail to create a backup solution. Aaron --
