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--- software:dovecot:archiveserver [2023/07/28 17:05] – rodolico
+++ software:dovecot:archiveserver [2023/09/25 14:42] – rodolico
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 ===== Create a user and store for the e-mail =====
-We should use a different user/group for this and all mail will be owned by that user/group. Additionally, we don't want a login, so we'll set the shell to /dev/false. We'll also tell the adduser script to not create the home directory (we'll create it ourselves),
+We should use a different user/group for this and all mail will be owned by that user/group. Additionally, we don't want a login, so we'll set the shell to /bin/false. We'll also tell the adduser script to not create the home directory (we'll create it ourselves),
 Message store (ie, home directory) can be anyplace. I'm going to set it up in /srv/vmail. This will be the head of a tree of subdirectories for individual users. Note, I use useradd (vs Debian's adduser) for simplicity.
 <code bash>
-useradd --home-dir /srv/vmail --gid vmail --no-create-home --shell /dev/false --user-group --comment 'Used for vmail only' vmail
+useradd --home-dir /srv/vmail --no-create-home --shell /bin/false --user-group --comment 'Used for vmail only' vmail
 mkdir -p /srv/vmail
 chmod 755 /srv/vmail
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 <code bash>
 mv /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf.original
+edit /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
 </code>
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 The script could also be set up to remove MIME attachments and store them. A good place to start on that would be in the article [[http://www.perlmonks.org/bare/?node_id=525036]] where they describe how to pull a MIME attachment out and store it as a file. The script could then replace the MIME attachment code in the e-mail with a link to the extracted file.
+===== Errors =====
+Some e-mail, especially older ones or spam, have malformed dates, or dates which can not be processed by the Perl libraries. In this case, you may receive an error similar to
+<code>
+Use of uninitialized value $t[4] in addition (+) at ./archiveIMAP line 234, <GEN3> line 720660.
+</code>
+and the e-mail in question will **not** be processed. If you find lines like this in your logs, or if you see some older e-mail not being moved, you will need to move manually or delete them.