disable emails from being backed up

Submitted by sgrayban on Mon, 02/01/2010 - 22:47

I have a couple clients that are asking for backups without backing up the actual emails that clients have. I see you can disable Mail/FTP users and mail aliases but nothing for just the email contents.

Is this possible ?

Status: 
Closed (fixed)

Comments

Submitted by JamieCameron on Tue, 02/02/2010 - 13:02

Where do you have email stored? Under each users' ~/Maildir directory, or at /var/spool/mail ?

Submitted by sgrayban on Tue, 02/02/2010 - 13:15

Well the majority of my clients use ~/Maildir

Submitted by JamieCameron on Tue, 02/02/2010 - 16:51

You should be able to set this up on a per-domain basis at Administration Options -> Excluded Directories, by entering a pattern like homes/*/Maildir

Does that work for you?

Submitted by sgrayban on Tue, 02/02/2010 - 17:17

Well they were looking for a global setting so they didn't have edit all the current domains. But if that is what were stuck with...

Submitted by JamieCameron on Tue, 02/02/2010 - 17:43

That's what is available right now. You could script it for multiple domains with the modify-domain API command though, using the --add-exclude flag.

Submitted by sgrayban on Tue, 02/02/2010 - 17:50

Can this change in the future then ?

Submitted by JamieCameron on Tue, 02/02/2010 - 17:56

Sure .. how about if there was a backup-level list of files to exclude?

Submitted by JamieCameron on Tue, 02/02/2010 - 23:40

I mean, would it be useful if you could define the list of files to exclude on the backup form (as a pattern like homes/*/Maildir ) ?

Submitted by JamieCameron on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 01:52

Ok, I will add that in the next release ..

Submitted by Issues on Wed, 02/17/2010 - 05:19

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.