[K12OSN] Archiving Email

Scott Sherrill scott at remc1.org
Thu Oct 25 17:21:24 UTC 2007


Shawn Powers 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.
> 
> 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...)
> 
>

Shawn -

My boss stumbled across this:

http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?answer=77182

It would be a way to do for free, and w/o changing your existing
structure (other than some dns records).  You would also have to sign up
for Google Apps.

Just another idea,

Scott Sherrill




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