Subj : Option to auto-archive email (sent or received by mail server) for som
To   : GitLab issue in main/sbbs
From : Rob Swindell
Date : Fri Aug 29 2025 12:59:14

open https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/969

An optional ARS that specifies which users mail should be auto-archived by the mail server. Mail sent by or received for a BBS user would be saved in `.eml` format, one message per file. When a user meeting the ARS sends a single mail message to multiple remote recipients, just one copy/file is saved. When receiving a mail message for multiple local recipients that meet the ARS, multiple copies/files would be saved.

The rationale is that some users mail sent or received by the Synchronet mail server should always be retained (in a format easily readable by most mail readers) until manually cleaned up, likely never (but it'd be trivial to write a script or program to auto-delete old archive files if desired).

Ideas for storage:
  * `data/user/<user-num>/<msg-num>.eml` - already cleaned up by new user process
  * `data/mail/<user-num>/<msg-num>.eml` - seems to imply that it's all the mail by/for the user, but it would not be - just the mail gone through the mail server
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