From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 18 08:11:20 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA26374 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 18 Jul 1997 08:11:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from horton.iaces.com (root@horton.iaces.com [204.147.87.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA26354 for ; Fri, 18 Jul 1997 08:11:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from proot@localhost) by horton.iaces.com (8.8.5/8.8.4) id KAA09585; Fri, 18 Jul 1997 10:11:04 -0500 (CDT) From: "Paul T. Root" Message-Id: <199707181511.KAA09585@horton.iaces.com> Subject: Re: mail account monitoring To: gcrutchr@nightflight.com (Gary Crutcher) Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 10:11:04 -0500 (CDT) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19970718074921.007d19e0@nightflight.com> from Gary Crutcher at "Jul 18, 97 07:49:21 am" X-Organization: !nterprise Networking Services - ACES X-Phone: (612) 663-1979 X-Fax: (612) 663-8030 X-Page: (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7270 X-Address: 200 S. 5th St., Suite 1100 X-Address: Minneapolis, MN 55402 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In a previous message, Gary Crutcher said: > Hi, > > I need to monitor someone's mail account. > How can I get copies of incoming and outgoing mail for > an account? I would like for all mail this person sends > or receives to be copied to a file, without having > to log all incoming and outgoing mail. > > Any ideas? incoming is easy, just make an alias in /etc/aliases monitored_user: monitored_user, me As to outgoing, that's going to be mailer dependant. You can setup programs like netscape or elm (and I'm sure many others) to set it up to do that: save to a particular file or user. This, of course, requires the cooperation of the user. Which I hope is the case. Alternatively, the .forward file could be used instead of /etc/aliases, again, with the cooperation of the user. -- The car ran out of gas. --from "Excuses, Excuses" *the* compendium of excuses by Leigh W. Rutledge