Re: [SLUG] Getting copies of mail

From: Jason Copenhaver (jcopenha@typedef.org)
Date: Thu Jul 10 2003 - 19:07:15 EDT


On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, steve wrote:

> On Thursday 10 July 2003 04:54 pm, you wrote:
> > I hate to have to ask this but it has become apparent that I have to do
> > something about the situation.
> > One of our sales reps is "allegedly" divulging trade secrets vie email to
> > rival companies and some customers. My higher-ups have asked me to begin
> > tracking all of the users email and keep copies of them for review. They
> > would also like me to track incoming mail to this user as well. All
> > without attracting the attention of the user... of course. :-)
>
> You can also listen to all communications on your LAN and grab a copy of
> everything matching a specific port and write it to file. Every midnight
> you could have cron rename it based on date for posterity and ease of
> access.
>
> F.ex. Ethereal can record all LAN traffic and filter it on any port and
> write a file. Then put a hub between your external Internet connection and
> your LAN so that you can read the traffic from a different port. (Since a
> switch will not allow for this.)
>
> I used a simple text based sniffer many years ago to do this but I cannot
> recall the name of it. Maybe I (or someone else) can recall it...

the simple text based sniffer would probably be tethereal.. The command
line version to Ethereal.. They come together and have the same
functionality.

Jason



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