[CLUE-Tech] Email archiving

[Dan Harris]

I have an app that I created for that purpose. Plus it has the ability to
search keywords and attachments via a mod_perl interface.  I've been meaning
to clean it up enough to post it as oss, but I have been lacking the time.

Anyway it works as a combination of SMTP hooks into Exim ( soon to migrate
to Postfix, however ) and procmail filters to call a perl program that
archives incoming and outgoing mail.  Some basic info about the message is
stored in a PostgreSQL database.  If this sounds interesting to anyone, I'll
work on making it "releasable" when I do the Postfix migration.

-Dan  


On 7/19/04 10:28 AM, "Mike Staver" <staver at fimble.com> wrote:

> I saw an article today:
> 
> http://channels.netscape.com/ns/careers/package.jsp?name=fte/firedfromemail/fi
> redfromemail
> 
> It has nothing to do with linux - but it made me think for a minute.  I
> read the part about email being subpoenaed, and then I asked myself what
> I would do if this happened at my company since I'm in charge of our
> mail here.  It got me wondering what everybody else does if they are in
> charge of their company's email system using linux.  With Exchange on
> Windows, I know that most companies just back up the information store
> nightly, or individual mail boxes using something like Veritas.  I then
> realized that if a company has a linux mail server and wants a free
> alternative, I was unsure as to what they would do in this situation
> with first backing up the mail, and second making sure they keep an
> archive of it for a certain period of time.  Is there anybody out there
> who has to deal with this?