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thiagotgc

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Hello friends...

Is it possible to keep ALL messages for 7 days, even if it has been "accepted and delivered" to the recipient?

Why sometimes I need to resubmit several times for a problem, on the client server or do tests and etc ...

I would like to have for 7 days copy of the same messages being, Spam, Virus, Sent, and etc ...
 
thiagotgc said:
Is it possible to keep ALL messages for 7 days, even if it has been "accepted and delivered" to the recipient?
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You could create a rule with a single action - BCC to send a copy of every mail to another mailbox - this would be your archive

The cleanup after 7 days would need to be implemented on the server where the BCC mailbox is

I hope this helps!
 
BCC is bad.

I figured PMG could hold the messages for later reference or resubmission
 
Why is BCC bad?

You can also quarantine all mail - but then it will not get delivered to the mailboxes
 
I would like to have the emails stored for a period within PMG, easily resending if needed.

BCCing a mailbox with a high volume of messages will not be good practice.

Keeping all messages quarantined is interesting, but it would be ideal to send the emails, and keep them in PMG

NOTE: I currently use Xeams, and even in its free version it already does, which is very good. Whenever an email is lost, or missed, I can resend it.

Is it possible that way in PMG too?
 
No this is currently not possible - the way to duplicate mails in PMG is to BCC them somewhere (or attach them with a notify action).
 
Is it possible, then, for all incoming emails to be quarantined?

All messages, accept, reject, block and etc ...
 
You can quarantine all mails - but Quarantine is a final action (as is Accept and Block).
I.e. if you quarantine a mail it won't get blocked or accepted (sent to the user)

to quarantine all mail, just create a rule with a high priority and quarantine as action
 
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atomala said:
Did anything change with this funcionality? Do you plan to implement it?
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no - and currently there is no plan to implement it soon - since I still think that BCC to an archive mailbox should give you all the functionality.

I hope this helps!
 
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Stoiko Ivanov said:
no - and currently there is no plan to implement it soon - since I still think that BCC to an archive mailbox should give you all the functionality.

I hope this helps!
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Resurrecting this thread -

I'm migrating to PMG from the free (but now defunct) EFA Email Filter Appliance in my home lab, and I have deployed the SpamTitan appliance at work. My hope was to also migrate work to PMG pending how well it works for me at home.

Both EFA and SpamTitan have the functionality being asked for here (both of which use postfix and spamassassin), and I'm going to say that it gets used extensively at work. In no way is a BCC inbox a substitute.

I would certainly get some pushback from my admins if I switch to PMG without the ability to download or re-release clean messages. We have other security products sitting in between our gateway and our inbox server. Troubleshooting those products without the ability to release messages exactly as they would normally be forwarded by our gateway would be a significant burden, as we would have to contact the sender to have them try again each time we made configuration changes to test. I simply cannot commandeer our customers' employees into our IT department.

There is no way to take a message from an inbox and run it back through our other tools for testing, as the headers will now contain entries for the inbox server. It is likely that DKIM and S/MIME signatures would be compromised in that process.

I hope you will reconsider implementing this feature.

Thanks.
-Ramon
 
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