Hi Eric,
If it is not too much trouble, would you give me more hint about which part I can tap to the system and get a copy of all emails?
Thanks in advance.
Best regards,
Bill
On 11/13/06, Eric Shubes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Perhaps you could use the 'tee' command somewhere along the process to
create a backup copy. I haven't thought this through, but I know that 'tee'
can be handy for splitting off copies.
Bill Kwok wrote:
> Actually, I've tried to use scripts to filter emails for a user after
> she's lost all her email in her computer. As I've mentioned before, if
> the user is in the bcc list, we may not be able to find any info of this
> user from the email header. My script has to go through the send log in
> order to find out which email the user should has received and who's the
> sender. Then by comparing the time stamp and the sender of emails, I
> can locate the email.
>
> My worry is that the possibility of getting wrong email is still high.
> For example, if a sender sent multiple emails, with different
> sizes, within short period of time, will the send log record emails in
> way which is different from the time stamp of the email files?
>
> Would anyone show me a better way to filter out the emails?
>
>
> Best regards,
> Bill
>
> On 11/13/06, *[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>* <
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
>
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I use the following line in taps to backup all incoming / outgoing
> emails
> > of
> > my.domain.com <http://my.domain.com/>:
> >
> > .*: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > My questions are:
> >
> > 1. Will it create an endless loop if, by any means, someone sends
> > email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>?
>
> Don't know, test it!
>
> > 2. Can I specify a directory, instead of a email ID, as the
> > destination, such as "([EMAIL PROTECTED]):/backup/$1" ?
>
> I think you can't but you can allways make a an email account and
> modify
> it's .qmail for putting all the mail on a specific maildir or whatever
>
> > 3. If I need to restore emails (both incoming and outgoing) for a
> > user, what's the best way to filter it out from the
> backup? Problem
> > here is
> > that emails were forwarded to the [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]>. The
> > information of recipient will be lost if he/she was only in the
> cc or
> > bcc
> > list.
>
>
> Tap is not thought exactly for backups and restores.
>
> Is for archiving (say, monitoring, legal obligations, limited backup of
> certain email etc)
>
> I'm certainly sure that you can allways make scripts for finding
> specific
> e-mails, anyway.
>
>
>
> > 4. If I can't use taps to backup / rstore my users' email in
> that way,
> > is there any utility that I can use?
>
> A plain old backup utility should work, tar for example.
>
> I use amanda (http://www.amanda.org/) for network backups of whole racks
> and works like a charm, but you can allways use a priopietary one like
> Veritas BackupExec or something like that.
>
>
> > Thanks in advance.
> > Best regards,
> > Bill
> >
--
-Eric 'shubes'
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