Welcome to the Benno MailArchiv Wiki!

On these pages you will find current technical details about Benno MailArchiv. This page does not claim to be exhaustive. It is continuously updated and expanded.

Please contact usif you have any questions or information that should be included in this wiki. Thank you!

• 18.02.2026 - Repository configuration in deb822 format
• 15.06.2025 - Repository Key updated
• 10.08.2023 - Important security update for Benno MailArchive available!
• 31.07.2023 - Unencrypted HTTP access from version 2.10.2 onwards
• 30.11.2022 - Debian versus Ubuntu
• 15.01.2021 - Benno MailArchiv from version 2.8.9 on UCS
• 01.09.2019 - Upgrade to Debian 10
• July 11, 2019 - Starting with Benno Release 2.8, Debian 8 (Jessie) will no longer be supported
• 26.07.2018 - Upgrade to UCS 4.3

Please send support requests via email to support@benno-mailarchiv.de.

Mit Hilfe des Scripts benno-supportinfo.sh können Sie die grundlegende Konfiguration des Systems zusammenfassen und uns verschlüsselt übermitteln. Sie können das Script direkt auf dem Benno MailArchiv System mit dem Kommando

wget https://wiki.benno-mailarchiv.de/tools/benno-supportinfo.sh

Download and then start with sudo sh benno-supportinfo.sh

Das Script erstellt ein temporäres Verzeichnis in /tmp und kopiert die Systemdaten in eine verschlüsselte data-Datei. Diese Datei können Sie dann an support@benno-mailarchiv.de schicken.

Important information on legally compliant and GoBD-compliant email archiving

• Quick installation guide
• Setting up Benno MailArchiv as a Docker container
• Detailed installation instructions - Benno MailArchiv 2.x
  • Operating system environments
  • Connection to Active Directory
  • Installation on older Debian versions
  • Installation on older Ubuntu versions
• Architecture overview
• Upgrade from Benno MailArchiv 1.x to Benno MailArchiv 2.x
• Plugins
  • Kopano

• Importing emails into Benno MailArchive via
  • MILTER
  • SMTP
  • IMAP
  • POP3
  • Microsoft Exchange
  • Microsoft Office 365
  • Novell Groupwise
  • Kerio Connect
  • Tobit David
• Backup (Data backup)
• Permissions
• Delete entire archive
• Delete emails from archive
• Delete emails after the retention period has ended
• Debug log
• Unimported emails
• Install license
• Troubleshooting

• Standard configuration (single container/archive)
• Client configuration
  • Import from multiple mail systems
• Address or domain filter
  • Archive only individual addresses
  • Exclude addresses from archiving
  • Archive only external emails
  • Domain with exclusion of individual addresses
• Storage Backends
  • FAST LTA
  • S3 Buckets

• Active Directory
• Local user database
• LDAP connection
• OAuth2 / OIDC

• Integration with provisioning backends
• Multi-tenant scaling
• White-label configuration

• Important information regarding Benno on UCS
• IMAP Import on UCS
• Extending the UCS schema with Benno MailArchiv attributes
• Configure extended attributes in UCS

• Archive format
• Retention periods
• Authentication
• Definitions
• Changelog
• Duplicate detection
• Fault diagnosis
  • File system permissions
• Importing mail from another mail archive
• Re-indexing
• Remote support via SSH tunnel with PuTTY
• REST Interface
• open_basedir Konfiguration für PHP
• Web interface via nginx

• Tutorial - Find emails quickly and easily with Benno MailArchive

• Legal aspects