Archiving All eMail Throughput

[benace]

Hello everyone-

Hopefully this will be an easy one.

I want to archive every email that passes through my sendmail box, regardless of which mailbox it goes to, or if it is destined for a valid recipient. That is to say, I want every email that is sent to my sendmail server for acceptance to be archived into a separate mailbox called "archive".

Aside from appending ", archive" to every alias entry, is there a parameter or feature that will let me do this programatically? Disk storage is not a concern.

Thanks for the help

-ben

 

[lgarner]

If the mailboxes are local, procmail is probably the easiest way. If messages pass through sendmail on their way to other destinations, then maybe

http://www.modulo.ro/synonym/

will have what you need. Never tried it, myself.

 

[benace]

lgarner-

Synonym worked beautifully. I've attached the process I used below:


5.0 Create user "archive"
5.1 Log into the sendmail server as root
5.2 Type cd /usr/local/bin and press Enter
5.3 Download the Synonym RPM from yum, the internet, or locally
5.4 Type rpm -ivh synonym-0.4-3.i386.rpm and press Enter
5.5 The program will return a command prompt when installation is complete
5.6 Type vi /etc/synonym.conf and press Enter
5.7 Replace entire text with the following (NO leading or trailing lines)
<Rules>
<Rule>
<Condition>
<Header>From</Header>
<Match>.*</Match>
</Condition>
<Action>
<ActionType>Copy</ActionType>
<Address>archive</Address>
</Action>
</Rule>
</Rules>
5.8 Save changes and exit
5.9 Type service synonym start and press Enter
5.10 Type chkconfig synonym on and press Enter
5.15 Type vi /etc/mail/sendmail.mc
5.16 At the very end, add the following two lines:
5.16.1 define(`_FFR_MILTER', `true')
5.16.2 INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(`Synonym', `S=local:/var/run/synonym/synonym.sock, T=C:10m;S:1s;R:1s;E:5m')
5.17 Save changes
5.18 Restart sendmail, start synonym