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 so each user can only retrieve their own mail
folder from the backup copy).
Cheers
Hugo
"Thomas Ribbrock (Design/DEG)" wrote:
>
> 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 deleted my important mail!" panic calls from time to
> > time). The logger should rotate, say, each time it grows to a certain
> > size.
>
> The rotating part would be logrotate's job, I suppose -> man logrotate.
> 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.
> Hence, all you'd need to do is to set up a procmail receipe to store a
> copy of each mail in a defined folder. If you don't know procmail yet, a
> start would be the man pages procmail, procmailrc and procmailex.
> The receipe you'd need would be rather simple, I think - give me a shout
> if you have a problem.
>
> HTH,
>
> Thomas
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