I'm sure there is some way to extract the "To" header out of the mail
message with procmail and use that to save the mail file.

(simple example that is untested)

:0c
TO=| egrep "^To:"

:0c
| bzcat -z >> /home/saved_messages/$TO.bz2



On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Clay Fandre wrote:

> You running sendmail?
> 
> http://www.modulo.ro/synonym/
> 
> 
> On Thu, 09 Oct 2003, Andy Zbikowski (Zibby) wrote:
> 
> > Currently I have a mail server that keeps a copy of every bit of incoming
> > e-mail. I do this with a simple procmail rule in /etc/procmailrc and alot
> > of extra space on /home:
> > 
> > :0c
> > | bzcat -z >> $HOME/.MailArchive.bz2
> > 
> > I want to do something similar for incoming mail, and the closest example
> > I've found so far is using the always_bcc option to dump all mail into a
> > mailbox. To me, this doesn't seem to be all that useful as everyone's mail
> > would end up in one big file.
> > 
> > Of course, this comes up because a user (*couch* sales guy *cough*) had
> > his laptop stolen, and of course he was downloading all his mail to his
> > laptop, and keeping who knows how many years of e-mail archived, and now
> > it's all gone and he wants it back. He was happy enough to get his recived
> > mail back, but I always ment to get around to figure out archiving
> > outgoing mail. Guess I just needed a kick in the pants.
> > 
> 
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