Re: [Sheflug] Incoming /outgoing mail archives

[Marcus Hanwell <linux [at] xxxxxxxxx>]

Chris Johnson wrote:

> Is it possible to set up Exim or another mail server so that once mail has
> been retrieved by the client PC that email is archived on the server instead
> of deleted?  I had a bad day last week where I managed to delete the last 2
> years of emails from my laptop.  As I'm about to set up a mail server at
> home to connect my laptop to I was wondering if I could help prevent this
> loss next time by archiving all incoming and outgoing email.
>  
Why not just collect email via imap, and set it up for offline viewing 
too. That way all mail could be stored on the mail server and the laptop 
etc. You can also access the same mailboxes via webmail whilst away or 
on another PC. You can also do a quick 'tar -cvjf mailback.tar.bz2 
.maildir/' to back up all your mail on the server, and then back that up 
onto CD or whatever you prefer.

It's the way I have done it for years. I take weekly snapshots of 
mailboxes too, just in case I delete something I really wanted. It is 
just one alternative anyway. There are many IMAP servers such as 
bincimap, courier-imap, cyrus-imap, uw-imap etc. You can use offlineimap 
too.
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