RE: [SLUG] Getting copies of mail

From: Bradley Brown (bradley@segrestfarms.com)
Date: Fri Jul 11 2003 - 11:13:14 EDT


Can this be accomplished with PERL or does it need to be a shell script?
Bradley

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> On Thursday July 10 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. :-)
> > I've never had to do something like this before so I'm lost on where to
> > begin.
> > All of our outgoing mail goes through a postfix smtp hub... as does our
> > incoming mail as well. Our pop server is off site in Tampa and
> I don't have
> > much access to it except for a web interface to the Communigate
> software.
> > Is there a way to accomplish what my bosses would like me to do?
> > I would appreciate any information anyone might be able to provide.
> > Thanks,
> > Bradley
>
>
> Absolutely. You said you are using Postfix for incoming and out
> going mail.
> This means that this person's internet email MUST pass through
> postfix and
> presumes that he isn't using a hotmail account. So just have
> Postfix pipe all
> mail to a bash script that greps for this guy's email address. If
> it finds
> the guy's email address then pipe the message to tee which in
> turn appends
> the message to an mbox file of your choosing and pipes the
> message with the
> sendmail command. If his email address isn't found then simply pipe the
> message to the sendmail command, skipping the tee.
>
> I suspect you would really like the script to do the job but I'm afraid I
> haven't the time right now. This script would only need to be
> about three or
> four lines long. The time is in the testing and debugging.
>
>
>



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