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About the COPY action
Chapter 12: Electronic Mail
Configuring advanced anti-spam and anti-fraud options
Important: If your site handles a large amount of spam messages, the disk space
required to store copies can become significant. You may need to delete the copied
mailboxes periodically in this case.
This action will deliver the message to the recipient, as well as store a copy of
the message in a designated location. The message can then be examined or
deleted from the mbox file by an administrator. The following options can be
specified for this action:
• path—The path for this value is preset as /var/spool/authority/copied. Do
not modify the path value.
• depth—This option indicates the depth of the file within the directory. The
default value is 0.
• default domain—This option allows you to specify the domain that will be
used if a recipient does not have a domain specified. The default is local.
• method—This option specifies whether or not a unique mailbox will be
created for each user in the designated directory, as follows:
– individual: Specify this method to create a unique mailbox for each
recipient.
– consolidated: Specify this option to create a single, central mailbox.
• cycle—If a consolidated mailbox is used, this option can be used to create
additional consolidated mailboxes. You can specify that a new mailbox be
created each hour (hourly) or each day (daily).
The following is an example of a COPY action:
threshold=**%;action=COPY;config=[path=./copied;
depth=0;default domain=local]
About the DROP action
This action deletes the message from the MTA and prevents it from being
delivered to its recipient. Dropped messages cannot be recovered. There are
no options that can be configured for this action.
The following is an example of a DROP action that will delete the message
from the MTA without delivering it to the recipient or saving a copy of the
message for later handling:
threshold=**%;action=DROP
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