Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 01:09:23 +0100 From: Jez Hancock <jez.hancock@munk.nu> To: Lonnie Santella <lonniesantella@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Logging the message body from an MTA Message-ID: <20040618000923.GA47565@munk.nu> In-Reply-To: <BAY15-F27mGPZ8MYenl000d6a04@hotmail.com> References: <BAY15-F27mGPZ8MYenl000d6a04@hotmail.com>
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On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 11:22:44PM +0000, Lonnie Santella wrote: > I need to log the message body of incoming and outgoing messages on my > FreeBSD 5.2.1 Release server. I'm running Exim right now, but I really > don't have a preference of MTA. The main thing is I need to facilitate the > logging of message bodies. > > I don't want to flood you with too many details, but we want to archive > messages (including message body) to a MySQL database, so that we can > quickly run queries and review messages from months/years ago - no matter > who's mailbox it ended up in. > > To accomplish this, we need to <first> log the message body somehow... > anyhow... then commit the logs to the MySQL database. > > I'd settle for learning how to do the first step. I've read through Exim > docs and Sendmail docs, as well as various newsgroups - plenty of info on > logging various data - but nothing on message bodies. I posted a message to > the Exim news group - but no luck there. > > I'm not set on Exim - I just want to log message bodies. Any help or a push > in the right direction would be GREATLY appreciated. If it helps, there's a reply on the exim-users list about archiving all email passing through the mta 'unseen'. I'll paste the relevant parts, for the whole thread you might want to check out the MARC mailing list archives - you should be able to find the thread by searching on the subject line or one of the other identifying headers. As for the rest of your problem, no doubt it's been done before of course, the hard part is finding out how :P The exim list is worth checking out if you decide to go down that route, the people on that list are very knowledgeable and it has probably been done before. Here is the mail in question re archiving messages anyway: >From exim-users-admin@exim.org Wed Apr 14 17:41:01 2004 To: exim-users@exim.org Subject: RE: [Exim] Archive Email In-Reply-To: <E1BDal0-0006q2-St@zion.killmyboss.com> Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.51.0404141544530.23408@amnesiac.narpes.com> References: <E1BDal0-0006q2-St@zion.killmyboss.com> List-Help: <mailto:exim-users-request@exim.org?subject=help> List-Post: <mailto:exim-users@exim.org> List-Subscribe: <http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users>, <mailto:exim-users-request@exim.org?subject=subscribe> List-Id: A user list for the exim MTA <exim-users.exim.org> List-Archive: <http://www.exim.org/pipermail/exim-users/>; Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 16:34:59 +0000 (GMT) Add a router, before the routers that would normally deal with incoming mail for the domain(s) in question. archiver: driver = redirect verify = false expn = false domains = ${lookup{$domain}lsearch{/etc/exim/mailarch}{$domain}fail} data = ${lookup{$domain}lsearch{/etc/exim/mailarch}} file_transport = address_file pipe_transport = address_pipe unseen = true repeat_use = false Add lines in /etc/exim/mailarch (any other name could be used instead) for the domains in question: domain1: mail-archive@domain1, archive@otherdomain.com domain2: /home/customer/mail/domain2 domain3: "|procmail -m /etc/procmailrcs/domain3-arch" -aw On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, fxpbackup.com wrote: > Could you give me more specifics on that? I really haven't done anything > with exim beyond setting up mailscanner / clamAV and fixing some cPanel > induced bugs. > > http://www.FXPBackup.com > Encrypted Backup Hosting > Dedicated Servers > -----Original Message----- > From: A. Wik [mailto:aw@narpes.com] > Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 8:46 PM > To: exim-users@exim.org > Subject: Re: [Exim] Archive Email > > On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 neo@fxpbackup.com wrote: > > > I need to find a simple way to either forward a copy of all > > emails for a domain to a specific account or to actually copy the > > message files themselves within the server to a storage area for > > ongoing archiving. More and more businesses are requesting this > > for legal purposes and I have yet to find a way to do it in Exim > > itself. > > I do something like that using the "unseen = true" router option > for for keeping archives of some mailing lists I run. > > -aw > -- Jez Hancock - System Administrator / PHP Developer http://munk.nu/ http://jez.hancock-family.com/ - Another FreeBSD Diary http://ipfwstats.sf.net/ - ipfw peruser traffic logging
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