Well, I'll give you some configuration hints..

1. don't forget to install sieve (eg. "apt-get install dovecot-sieve")..

2. Add to "postfix/main.cf" the following lines: ---8<--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Tell postfix to hand off mail to the definition for dovecot in master.cf

virtual_transport = dovecot dovecot_destination_recipient_limit = 1 ---8<--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

3. In "postfix/master.cf": ---8<--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Integration with Dovecot - hand mail over to it for local delivery, and

run the process under the vmail user and mail group.

dovecot unix - n n - - pipe flags=DRhu user=vmail:mail argv=/usr/lib/dovecot/dovecot-lda -d $(recipient) ---8<--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

4. add "$mail_plugins sieve" to "dovecot/conf.d/15-lda.conf"

That’s all! Then just provide the sieve scripts at location specified in "dovecot/conf.d/90-sieve.conf" and you are done!

Good luck!

Bye!

Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Distinti saluti / Kind regards De Zordo Patrick patrick@spamreducer.eu

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: dovecot [mailto:dovecot-bounces@dovecot.org] Im Auftrag von LuKreme Gesendet: Montag, 1. September 2014 18:47 An: dovecot@dovecot.org Betreff: Re: Creating a backup of incoming mail

On 30 Aug 2014, at 10:33 , Oscar del Rio <delrio@mie.utoronto.ca> wrote:

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You could use a global "sieve_before" filter.

http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Pigeonhole/Sieve/Configuration

And, I get hampered on the very first step:

To use Sieve, you will first need to make sure you are using Dovecot LDA or LMTP for delivering incoming mail to users' mailboxes. Then, you need to enable the Pigeonhole Sieve plugin in your configuration:

protocol lda { mail_plugins = $mail_plugins sieve }

OK, so I am using dovecot-lda via postfix/master.cf, but in my configuration I have a section tagged protocols, not protocol.

Don't know if this is the same thing, or a slightly different thing. I don't know where/what $mail_plugins refers to, and there is no "plugins" section of my configuration file. In fact, the string "plug" doesn't appear in dovecot.conf (there are some commented lines for mail_plugins in conf.d/ files).

Then, sieve_global_path is deprecated, but despite being tagged as deprecated, the example config uses the sieve_global_path. Shouldn't the example use sieve_default?

Looks like further down is the sieve_before, but really, the documentation feels almost like it has set out with the intention of being as obtuse as possible.

If I understand it, and I am sure I do not, what I need to add in to dovecot.conf is something like this:

protocol lda { mail_plugins = $mail_plugins sieve }

(which is separate and unrelated to my "protocols = imap" existing line in dovecot.conf)

plugin { sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_before = /var/lib/dovecot/sieve/archive.sieve }

And then in archive.sieve I find out what the commands are to write a COPY of the mail to a location after getting the date info.

require ["variables","date","fileinto","mailbox"];

if currentdate :matches "year" "*" { set "year" "${1}"; } if currentdate :matches "month" "*" { set "month" "${1}"; }

And a command like this, but not this, since i wan the backup stores in an absolute path outside the IMAP store and I obviously only want a copy of that message.

fileinto :create "INBOX.Lists.${year}.${month}.dovecot"; }

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On 01 Sep 2014, at 01:33 , Patrick De Zordo <patrick@spamreducer.eu> wrote:

To backup all mail (incoming and outgoing), BCC all mails, you could do the following..

Add to your "/etc/postfix/main.cf" the following: ---8<-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Auto-Backup all mails

transport_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/transport backuplmtp_destination_recipient_limit = 1 lmtp_destination_recipient_limit = 1 recipient_bcc_maps = pcre:/etc/postfix/backup_bcc.pcre sender_bcc_maps = pcre:/etc/postfix/backup_bcc.pcre ---8<-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Create a domain called "backup.local" in postfixadmin or whatever you use to edit your accounts..

Add every domain for which you like to activate incoming backup to " /etc/postfix/backup_bcc.pcre": ---8<------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /^(.*)@spamreducer\.eu$/ spamreducer.eu@backup.local ---8<-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Add to your "/etc/postfix/master.cf" the following: ---8<------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- backuplmtp unix - - n - - lmtp ---8<-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Add to your "/etc/postfix/transport" the following: ---8<------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [backup.local] backuplmtp ---8<-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Don't forget to issue " postmap /etc/postfix/transport"..

For making folders based on "year/month" you have to use an appropriate sieve script.

Give me a feedback!

Wow, that is a whole lot more work that what I did with procmail which was practically one line in the /usr/locale/etc/procmailrc right at the top.

YER=date %Y MON=date %m

:0c /backup/mail/$YER/$MON/

I'll start with Sieve (though I still haven't used it) and see what that can do, but this at least I can do, if sieve proves too annoying to get going.

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On 02 Sep 2014, at 01:26 , Robert Schetterer <rs@sys4.de> wrote:

with listescape plugin enabled something like

require ["reject","variables","date","fileinto","mailbox","envelope","subaddress","regex","copy","include"];

Extract date info

if currentdate :matches "year" "*" { set "year" "${1}"; } if currentdate :matches "month" "*" { set "month" "${1}"; } if currentdate :matches "day" "*" { set "day" "${1}"; } if envelope :detail :matches "to" "*" { set :lower "to" "${1}"; } if true { if header :contains "Return-Path" "${to}@domain.de" { fileinto :create "user-backup/${year}/${month}/${day}/${to}/out";} else { fileinto :create "user-backup/${year}/${month}/${day}/${to}/in";} stop; }

Oh, thanks for that. I'd made very little progress in finding "fileinto :create"

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On 06 Sep 2014, at 18:20 , Will Yardley <dovecot.org@veggiechinese.net> wrote:

On Mon, Sep 01, 2014 at 09:33:52AM +0200, Patrick De Zordo wrote:

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To backup all mail (incoming and outgoing), BCC all mails, you could do the following..

...

Add to your "/etc/postfix/main.cf" the following: ---8<-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Auto-Backup all mails

transport_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/transport backuplmtp_destination_recipient_limit = 1 lmtp_destination_recipient_limit = 1 recipient_bcc_maps = pcre:/etc/postfix/backup_bcc.pcre sender_bcc_maps = pcre:/etc/postfix/backup_bcc.pcre

Why not just use $always_bcc?

Does that apply to INCOMING mail? (that's what I am trying to backup)

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On 09 Sep 2014, at 02:06 , Robert Schetterer <rs@sys4.de> wrote:

Am 09.09.2014 um 09:05 schrieb LuKreme:

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On 06 Sep 2014, at 18:20 , Will Yardley <dovecot.org@veggiechinese.net> wrote:

On Mon, Sep 01, 2014 at 09:33:52AM +0200, Patrick De Zordo wrote:

...

To backup all mail (incoming and outgoing), BCC all mails, you could do the following..

...

Add to your "/etc/postfix/main.cf" the following: ---8<-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Auto-Backup all mails

transport_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/transport backuplmtp_destination_recipient_limit = 1 lmtp_destination_recipient_limit = 1 recipient_bcc_maps = pcre:/etc/postfix/backup_bcc.pcre sender_bcc_maps = pcre:/etc/postfix/backup_bcc.pcre

Why not just use $always_bcc?

Does that apply to INCOMING mail? (that's what I am trying to backup)

optional to

recipient_bcc_maps sender_bcc_maps

Well, heck. I feel twice as dumb as I did before I read your message.

Thanks for that, I think. :)

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