On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 06:21:26PM +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote: .... > > If you want to replicate mail boxes - as initially said this is not > task of an MTA - you should consider using rsync between then POP3/IMAP > servers. CAUTION... rsync would not know about the locks that mail needs to keep the mail files from being corrupt. If you could signal a sync then lockout access/changes sure... aliases can be used to clone (tee style) the incoming stream to an archive box. camel, camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx The user does not need access to archiveBoxA but the system admin of the archive box needs to install some house keeping scripts to organize archives. And, It can be valuable to have something like this very early in a procmailrc file. # c Generate a carbon copy of this mail :0 c /archive/home/USER-bob/mail/inhist/this.week # see man procmailex !!!!... ### remove duplicate messages, i.e. to me and mailing list ##:0 Wh: msgid.lock ##| formail -D 32768 $MAILDIR/mail/cache.msgid A site specific .procmailrc file could also be placed in /etc/skel by you. -- T o m M i t c h e l l May your cup runneth over with goodness and mercy and may your buffers never overflow.