Re: Using Postfix for email retention

On Oct 10, 2011, at 10:59 AM, Jeroen Geilman wrote:

> On 2011-10-10 03:50, Janantha Marasinghe wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I want to know if postfix can be used to save a copy of every e-mail sent and received (including attachments) by a mail server for email retention. If it could indexed for easier searching that would be great!
>> Thnks
>>
>> J
>
> Not postfix related, but for long-term storage with optional time-based expiry, look into dbmail: www.dbmail.org
> Alternatively, dovecot IMAPd supports index-on-delivery, so even large archives are instantly searchable.
>
> --
> J.
>

For retaining all sent emails server wide through postfix you can use in main.cf the following:
always_bcc = user.example

Where user.example has a valid mail account on the server.

http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html

Cameron

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