[CLUE-Tech] Email clients, Postfix and listing of emails sent

[Jeff Cann]

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On Saturday 24 July 2004 8:50 pm, Kevin Cullis wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Just a quick question.  I know that my email client keeps a listing of
> all of my emails that I've sent, does Postfix and others do the same?
> How would I see this list?

Depending on your installation, postfix logs all mail traffic into a log file, 
like /var/log/maillog.  Here's an example entry.  This message was sent to 
<postfix at ts.servebeer.com>:

Jul 24 20:50:05 jumanji postfix/local[26925]: 8D16F433E8: 
to=<postfix at ts.servebeer.com>, relay=local, delay=834605, status=s
ent (mailbox)

You could do something like this to extract the email addresses into a list:

$ grep 'to=' /var/log/maillog | cut -d'<' -f2 | cut -d'>' -f1  | sort | uniq

I'm not sure on other MTAs.

HTH-
Jeff

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