how to deal with mail retention/archival.

[Alvin Starr]

On 08/26/2016 10:25 AM, Adam Tauno Williams via Info-cyrus wrote:
> On Fri, 2016-08-26 at 10:07 -0400, Alvin Starr via Info-cyrus wrote:
>> Well the MTA still does not deal with archival because it will need
>> to be passed through to Yet Another MDA to handle the archival and
>> management process.
> I'm not sure what you mean.  You can archive to a 'shared' folder or
> into an MBOX to be processed by something which rotates content.
Trapping all the email in postfix and using a bcc would either push the 
bcc'd email to another mail handler of back into cyrus in some other 
mailbox.
Which is doable but just seems clunky.
>
>> For the pure archival of the input/output stream including duplicate
>> deliveries and all spam always_bcc into YAMDA would work.
> always_bcc and delayed expunge work for us.
This could be the answer. I tried using always_bcc for another use and 
found that it had some quirks with cyrus so I have avoided it since then 
but it may be worth a revisit.
>
>> In my thinking Cyrus is responsible for the storage and management of
>> email so archival would be a part of that process.
> It has to be the MTAs responsibility as Cyrus very possibly does not
> see *sent* mail; or messages which are somehow otherwise routed.
>
True enough but an always_bcc into the Sent folder would solve that problem.

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