From: Victor Duchovni (Victor.Duchovnimorganstanley.com)
Date: Fri May 02 2008 - 11:10:07 CDT

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On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 10:41:40AM -0400, Charles Marcus wrote:

> On 5/2/2008, Victor Duchovni (Victor.Duchovnimorganstanley.com) wrote:
> >It's the best I can do until I find the cycles to fully document and
> >then release the tee proxy I am using. I don't think it is appropriate
> >to release it in an undocumented state.
>
> Understandable, and I'm sure I and many others look forward to this...
>
> With the advancing requirements of burdensome regulations, this (some
> kind of basic archiving capability) will become more and more important,
> and in my opinion, it is not unreasonable for postfix to provide an
> integrated/built-in method of performing this function, to ensure a
> robust and safe - ie, don't bounce if there is a problem with the
> mirror, but queue until it is back up, etc - functionality.

I don't expect the proxy in question to ever be part of Postfix. Postfix
supports at least 4 extension mechanisms:

        - Post-queue content filters
        - Pre-queue proxy filters
        - Milters
        - Policy servers

It is up to the Postfix community and vendors to create add-on tools
that make use of these features. So I don't see a "buit-in" archive
feature any time soon.

> It would also be nice if it could easily deliver to an appropriate
> sub-folder - ie, one named after the local address part of the original
> envelope recipient (the one(s) being tested for during recipient
> validation stage when the primary server accepted the message for final
> delivery)...

The right mechanism leaves this choice to the administrator, the
archive copy is created and queued, after that you can deliver it
where-ever you want (configure the archive Postfix instance transport
rules accoringly). It would be wrong to make delivery decisions in the
archive module, they would never be sufficiently comprehensive.

--
        Viktor.

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