[BUGS] Request for comment on email sorting
Jerahmy Pocott
quakenet1 at optusnet.com.au
Thu Jan 31 19:16:06 EST 2008
Hello everyone,
I'm just looking for some comments/ideas on how you would go about
providing an elegant (or even messy by working) solution for this
situation.. I have a few ideas but would love to get some different
opinions!
The set up is as follows: Users all get their mail from where ever via
their own means using some mail client (outlook pretty much 100% of
the time). I.E. It's out side my scope.
What I want to achieve is the following:
1) Keep a copy of ALL mail sent and received for backup purposes,
these mail stores should only be viewable by the user whos mail it has
for privacy reasons.
My thoughts are to create either a single imap/mail box or one for
each user and putting a single rule in their mail clients to put a
copy of everything in that box. I thought imap might be good because
they can easily browse the backup mail store and possibly delete
things they don't want in it any more. Obviously multiple boxs would
be easier for security, but point two is actually more important than
point 1, and multiple accounts may cause difficulties with that.
2) Filter all new mail that is stored with a set of rules that either
forwards or copies matching mail to another account. For example all
mail that contains say the key word "project xyz" should end up in a
common place regardless of who received/sent it.
This could be achieved with multiple rules in everyones client, but
that would be very messy and difficult to administer.. And it can't
really all be sent to a mail client for filtering due to privacy. So
the filtering needs to happen prior to anyone being able to see the
mail.
I like the idea of a single imap store that is accessed by different
users and assigned what they can read/write based on user.. But that
may not really be feasible, there is also the fact that outlook
doesn't seem to play all that nicely with imap.
Obviously the server is running FreeBSD =P
Thanks for any ideas!
Cheers,
Jerahmy.
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