From: /dev/rob0 (rob0gmx.co.uk)
Date: Wed Feb 16 2005 - 09:48:33 CST

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On Wednesday 16 February 2005 02:22, Alan Civita wrote:
> is it possible in postfix to use as user mailbox directory a mounted
> DVD/CD-ROm where monthly i save the messages?.. obviously only for
> reading...

Once mail has been delivered to a user mailbox, Postfix is out of the
picture, so what would be the point?

> I have a very big amail archive to manage, because my boss wants to
> save all in/out mail messages..so i need to organize them..and i was

IMO bosses should think more about what they want. Having a full
archive of all email ever might mean more legal liability for the
company. If there's a problem or suspicious employee, by all means,
monitor that individual. I argue against these "archive everything"
ideas whenever they raise their ugly heads.

> thinking to archive each month to a DVD to make it readable ...so i'd

Sounds like a job for a shell script and a cron daemon.

> like to create an account ad-hoc and use the DVD mounted partition as
> mailbox directory..is this possible? or is it some Star-trek feature?

Sure it's possible. It's an OS issue, not a Postfix one. If you want to
play with crazy packet-writing RW filesystems for DVD media, go ahead.
But what you said here contradicts the idea expressed at the beginning,
about having a user mailbox on read-only media.
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