[K12OSN] Archiving Email

[Rob Asher]

Using an email gateway/filter such as MailScanner(http://www.mailscanner.info/) on top of sendmail, you have the option to archive all mail passing through it or forward a copy to a particular mbox - http://www.mailscanner.info/MailScanner.conf.index.html#Archive%20Mail  You can also achieve about the same effect and also have the messages purged on a schedule using the "store" option with the various mail actions in the config file such as http://www.mailscanner.info/MailScanner.conf.index.html#Non%20Spam%20Actions, http://www.mailscanner.info/MailScanner.conf.index.html#Spam%20Actions  and  http://www.mailscanner.info/MailScanner.conf.index.html#High%20Scoring%20Spam%20Actions  Adding a web based front end to the system like Mailwatch http://mailwatch.sourceforge.net/doku.php gives you the option to search through all the messages in the quarantine by date and run various reports against the stored messages as well.

HTH,
Rob


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Rob Asher
Network Systems Technician
Paragould School District
(870)236-7744 Ext. 169


>>> Shawn Powers <spowers at inlandlakes.org> 10/23/2007 11:17:54 am >>>
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.

Is it possible to pipe all emails (again, incoming and outgoing) into  
something like pipermail that mailman uses?  Ideally with searching  
and sorting abilities...

I'm currently using sendmail and dovecot with maildir folders.  I'm  
willing to change MTAs, but I'm really scratching my head to come up  
with the best way to accomplish the task.  I'm looking for any advice  
you can offer.

(No, I'm not looking for ethical or political responses, we're way  
past that...)

Thanks,
-Shawn


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