Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 09:51:34 +0200 From: Geert Hendrickx <geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be> To: Lonnie Santella <lonniesantella@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Logging the message body from an MTA Message-ID: <20040618075134.GB13723@lori.mine.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 know about Exim, but since you don't care switching MTA, Postfix has an "always_bcc" option. Every mail processed by Postfix (both incoming and outgoing) will be forwarded to that address. You could then make that address use procmail or some other pipe to store the e-mail in your database. GH > > 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. > > Thanks, > > Lonnie > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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