MailCow » Historie » Revision 5
Revision 4 (Jeremias Keihsler, 31.01.2023 19:36) → Revision 5/7 (Jeremias Keihsler, 16.10.2023 08:27)
h1. MailCow
h2. Backup-Mailserver
interesting article covering that topic
https://autoize.com/backup-mx-configuration-for-mailcow/
h3. Backup
taken from https://mailcow.github.io/mailcow-dockerized-docs/b_n_r_backup/
create backup-target-location
<pre><code class="shell">
mkdir /mnt/mailcow_backups
</code></pre>
create daily-backup-script @/etc/cron.daily/mailcow_backup.sh@
<pre><code class="shell">
#!/bin/sh
# Backup mailcow data
# https://mailcow.github.io/mailcow-dockerized-docs/b_n_r_backup/
set -e
OUT="$(mktemp)"
export MAILCOW_BACKUP_LOCATION="/mnt/mailcow_backups"
SCRIPT="/opt/mailcow-dockerized/helper-scripts/backup_and_restore.sh"
PARAMETERS="backup all"
OPTIONS="--delete-days 30"
# run command
set +e
"${SCRIPT}" ${PARAMETERS} ${OPTIONS} 2>&1 > "$OUT"
RESULT=$?
if [ $RESULT -ne 0 ]
then
echo "${SCRIPT} ${PARAMETERS} ${OPTIONS} encounters an error:"
echo "RESULT=$RESULT"
echo "STDOUT / STDERR:"
cat "$OUT"
fi
</code></pre>
h2. automatically delete mails older than in any given mailbox/folder
<pre><code class="shell">
vim /usr/local/bin/tidyup_mailbox.sh
</code></pre>
<pre><code class="shell">
#!/bin/bash
# JKE 2023-10-16
# path to mailcow-dockerized
cd /opt/mailcow-dockerized
sudo docker compose exec dovecot-mailcow doveadm expunge -u 'user@example.com' mailbox 'FromServerMail' before 2w
sudo docker compose exec dovecot-mailcow doveadm expunge -u 'user@example.com' mailbox 'FromServerMail/Crond' before 6w
sudo docker compose exec dovecot-mailcow doveadm expunge -u 'user@example.com' mailbox 'FromServerMail/Fail2Ban_2' before 5d
sudo docker compose exec dovecot-mailcow doveadm expunge -u 'user@example.com' mailbox 'FromServerMail/Logwatch' before 2w
sudo docker compose exec dovecot-mailcow doveadm expunge -u 'user@example.com' mailbox 'FromServerMail/ztrash' before 1w
</code></pre>
add this to cron
<pre><code class="shell">
vim /etc/cron.d/tidyup_mailbox
</code></pre>
<pre><code class="shell">
# JKE 2023-10-16
#
# min hr dom month dow user command
# - - - - -
# | | | | |
# | | | | +-day of week (0-7) sunday=0 or 7
# | | | +---------month (1-12)
# | | +----------------day of month (1-31)
# | +-----------------------hour (0-23)
# +------------------------------min (0-59)
#
57 23 * * * root /usr/local/bin/tidyup_mailbox.sh
</code></pre>
h2. Debug
h3. logs
in-memory logs are sometimes not enough ...
find @mailcow.conf@, start in it's directory
<pre><code class="shell">
docker compose logs
</code></pre>