On 12/15/2018 12:34 AM, @lbutlr wrote: > On 14 Dec 2018, at 16:30, @lbutlr <krem...@kreme.com> wrote: >> Is it possible to override the POP3 delete on download command and make >> sure that messages stay on the server for at least X hours or X days? >> It is important that the messages be around long enough to hit a snapshot >> cycle (using rsnapshot to backup ever hour). > > Now that I think about it, even better would be a way to move the messages > into an archive box when they are downloaded, this way they will be entirely > invisible from the POP3 access, and I can use normal expiry functions to > clean out that archive after backup.
From a data flow (and privacy protection) POV, that wouldn't be much different anymore from having *the MTA* feed a copy of (all incoming) e-mails directly into an archiving mechanism, would it? http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#always_bcc Regards, -- Jochen Bern Systemingenieur www.binect.de www.facebook.de/binect
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