[Cialug] Email Archiving

[Josh More]

This solution would not capture emails within the email system unless you do some mucking about with localhost (which is often not possible).  If you're archiving for legal reasons, it would not be sufficient.

-Josh More, CISSP, GIAC-GSLC, GIAC-GCIH, RHCE, NCLP
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From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [cialug-bounces at cialug.org] on behalf of j.bengtson at mchsi.com [j.bengtson at mchsi.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 07:22
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Email Archiving

Is it possible to configure a firewall to forward the email to a proxy server, which would then forward the mail to your mail server, and also to send a copy of the message to another archive email server?  That way the email is handled as per normal, but a copy of that email is sent to an archive email server that does nothing but store that copy (only sysadmins could access the archive server, and such access would be heavily logged).  The firewall would have to be configured to bounce a copy of outbound emails to the archive email server as well, giving you a complete archive of all inbound and outbound email.  I'm not sure if it could be set up to archive internal-only emails...

I don't know if such a system exists, or even if it's possible, but if the firewall or proxy could be configured like this, you'd have what you're looking for.  Alternatively, there are some open-source email archive systems out there: http://www.mailarchiva.com/features.htm


----- Original Message -----
From: L. V. Lammert
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Sent: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 17:15:14 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Email Archiving

At 04:40 PM 10/6/2010, you wrote:
>On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 4:34 PM, L. V. Lammert wrote:
> > Anyone ever tried to setup an archiving solution when an external
> > provider is being used? Most of the hits I see when searching are for
> > Exchange servers.
>
>If your provider supports IMAP you could use offlineimap to sync the
>messages to local disk.

Interesting, .. thanks!! The architecture is similar to the
fetchmail, however, in that an email could be deleted on the hosting
service in between 'archive' events.

The more I think about it, it almost has to be integrated with the
physical mail server (or a proxy thereof), .. but the other side is
merging that incoming archive with outbound email archives.

         Lee

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