From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 5 21:17:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA18549 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 21:17:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bcgrizzly.com (bcgrizzly.com [207.34.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA18544 for ; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 21:17:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from forger@bcgrizzly.com) Received: (qmail 17555 invoked from network); 6 Nov 1998 05:19:40 -0000 Received: from bcgrizzly.com (207.34.136.10) by bcgrizzly.com with SMTP; 6 Nov 1998 05:19:40 -0000 Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 21:19:40 -0800 (PST) From: Brook Miles To: Roman Katsnelson cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mail server emergency In-Reply-To: <36427A82.E1BE20@graphnet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 5 Nov 1998, Roman Katsnelson wrote: > My superiors have lost it. I need to solve the following problem by > tomorrow morning: we have a new client who wants to spy on its > employees. They want us to build a mail server such that all outgoing > and incoming mail is stored on it for x amount of days. I need to figure > out which platform to build this one (ok, that's kind of a given), which > mail server to use, learn HOW to install and operate the server, and > have a solution to the problem in the works by tomorrow 10 AM. > > Can someone please suggest a server to use? Ideally, it should be easy > to learn, and able to handle a pretty heavy load and workable with this > problem. Thanks again and always, > > Roman Check out qmail in the ports. Also www.qmail.org. I beleive you'll have to go with the port and not the package becuase you must recompile it to save copies of all messages (says the qmail FAQ). qmail is easy to use but doesn't use /var/mail so make sure you can operate properly with it's way of doing things first. Brook To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message