Copying Incoming and Outgoing E-Mail

[CPFarhood]

I host a domain for a company that would like to keep copies of incoming and outgoing e-mail (for legal purposes). How would i go about setting this up for them?

 

[serve-you.net]

There is no easy way to do it. sent mail is saved on the client side, not the server side. Incoming you could just add a redirect to each mailbox, and have it go to a "catchall" type mailbox. The other way would be to manually backup /var/qmail/mailnames/domainname. You'd also get any sent mail that may actually be on the server (like from webmail).

 

[CPFarhood]

I found a program called Qmail Tap that does what i need, but it would require a rebuild of Qmail, does sw-soft include the sources with the running configuration?

Here's the program
http://inter7.com/?page=qmailtap

 

[serve-you.net]

No. Plesk modifies the way that qmail runs, in order for it to integrate with the CP. Usually rebuilding qmail on a plesk box, means running a different queue, such as qmail-scanner, or some other "wrapper".

The patch you pointed out, does nothing special from what I can tell. Like I said before, just add a redirect to each user, and you will get the same thing.

 

[CPFarhood]

Originally posted by serve-you.net
No. Plesk modifies the way that qmail runs, in order for it to integrate with the CP. Usually rebuilding qmail on a plesk box, means running a different queue, such as qmail-scanner, or some other "wrapper".

The patch you pointed out, does nothing special from what I can tell. Like I said before, just add a redirect to each user, and you will get the same thing.

Do redirects keep a copy of the message for that specific user?

 

[serve-you.net]

If you have a mailbox setup, and setup a redirect, it will save the message like normal to the mailbox, AND send a copy to the redirect address.

 

[CPFarhood]

Originally posted by serve-you.net
If you have a mailbox setup, and setup a redirect, it will save the message like normal to the mailbox, AND send a copy to the redirect address.

Any solution for outgoing messages?

 

[serve-you.net]

The other way would be to manually backup /var/qmail/mailnames/domainname. You'd also get any sent mail that may actually be on the server (like from webmail).

Other than that, it would have to happen on the client side.