On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 02:11 -0800, jan gestre wrote: > Speaking of which, how do you configure postfix or dovecot to leave > copies of email on the server without configuring the email clients? I > configure the clients to use imap but some tinker with the settings > and switch to pop3 and delete all emails.
linuxpol and michael cole point out what to configure in postfix. you don't need to worry about imap or pop3. you just forward all emails that postfix receives (from internal users to other internal users, from internal users to external addresses, from external addresses to internal users) to another email address that just sits there receiving emails. you're working with BCCs that postfix manages itself. you're not working with the employee's mailboxes at all. you'd probably have another process periodically downloading that email into something that uses maildir, so that you don't have problems when the email gets to 2G or whatever the limits are. or pushing the email into a database with full text search capability (e.g., postgresql 8.3 has full text search built-in now, previously it was a separate package that you had to install, and mysql has had full text search in core for a long time now), for easy searching. tiger _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
