[K12OSN] Archiving Email

[Les Mikesell]

Dan Young wrote:
> On 10/23/07, Shawn Powers <spowers at inlandlakes.org> wrote:
>> If you are archiving every incoming and outgoing email in your
>> network, how are you doing it?  We've had too many instances that have
>> required searching, and my current email backup scheme doesn't really
>> lend itself to forensics.
> 
> This has come up in the context of my work. We're evaluating some
> possiblilites right now. One that occurred to me was to BCC everything
> to a Zimbra box, since that appears to index mail using Lucene. It has a
> command-line client to query the index:
> 
> http://wiki.zimbra.com/index.php?title=CLI_zmmboxsearch_%28Cross_mailbox_search%29
> 
> I have no clue how well that scales.
> 
> There seem to be a plethora of commercial options, with Sarbanes-Oxley
> being the driver as near as I can tell.

If you are running sendmail, I'd recommend adding MimeDefang to get more 
control.  It runs as a miter, provides a lot of built in functionality 
in terms of virus and spam scanning, and lets you control all the 
delivery steps with a small snippet of perl.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com