Keep copy of incoming mail?

2000-01-19 Thread Steve Frampton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello: I'm admin'ing a system which is the mail server for several hundred users. What I would like to do is have a copy of each incoming e-mail message be appended to a "logger" file (to be able to rescue the "I accidentally deleted my important ma

Re: Keep copy of incoming mail?

2000-01-19 Thread Steve Frampton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Thomas Ribbrock (Design/DEG) wrote: > Hm - is 6.0 different in that regard from all other > versions, then? RHL 4.2 and 5.x were already using procmail as delivery > agent, so I thought 6.x would as well? Hmmm...perhaps I misun

Re: Keep copy of incoming mail?

2000-01-19 Thread Charles Galpin
On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Steve Frampton wrote: > > Assuming procmail *is* being called automatically via sendmail, is there a > global procmailrc file I can create which will forward to the original > mail user(s) along with a copy appended to the "logger" file? yes, can you guess? /etc/procmailrc

Re: Keep copy of incoming mail?

2000-01-19 Thread Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\)
On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 10:13:36AM +0900, Steve Frampton wrote: > > I'm admin'ing a system which is the mail server for several hundred > users. What I would like to do is have a copy of each incoming e-mail > message be appended to a "logger" file (to be able to rescue the "I > accidentally del

Re: Keep copy of incoming mail?

2000-01-19 Thread Steve Frampton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Thomas Ribbrock (Design/DEG) wrote: > As for the copy: If your mail is coming in via sendmail it might be very > easy, as Red Hat's default setup is using procmail as delivery agent. Yeah, this would have been a snap under 6.x.

Re: Keep copy of incoming mail?

2000-01-19 Thread Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\)
On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 10:18:43PM +0900, Steve Frampton wrote: > > Yeah, this would have been a snap under 6.x. But the server is Red Hat > 6.0 based, and procmail wasn't automatically executed by sendmail on the > older versions -- you needed to call it using a .forward file. ;-( Hm - is 6.

Re: Keep copy of incoming mail?

2000-01-19 Thread Hugo Bouckaert
Hi If you maintain a copy from each mail message in a log file, all messages from everybody are put together in one big file. A suggestion: Why don't you make a daily backup (with cron) of the entire contents of /var/spool/mail and make that backup available to users (with permissions maintained