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From: bill@wjv.com (Bill Vermillion)
Subject: Re: How to save ALL inbound and outbound mail
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In article <39C28972.6EC08990@aplawrence.com>,
Tony Lawrence  <tony@aplawrence.com> wrote:
>Fabio Giannotti wrote:

>> Hello all,

>> Running 5.0.5 with sendmail 8.8.8.

>> Does anyone know how to do sendmail.cf "magic" to allow the
>> server to keep a copy of all inbound and outbound mail?

>> (Client needs this for legal CYA reasons...)

>When you start the daemon, add "-X
>/var//log/monster_maill_log".  You'll need to stop sendmail
>fairly often to compress and rotate those logs; they will
>get monstrous.. I do this at several client sites probably
>for the same reasons your client wants to do it- we keep a
>few days on the server and the rest can be had from tape if
>ever needed..

Thanks for that pointer Tony.  So many programs - so many flags.

I just tried it and I saw why it gets 'monstrous'.  It logs the file
incoming and delivery too. That's all the handshake headers and 2
copies of the message. I just sent a 1 line email message
- plain text - 43 characters long.  The log file is 3512.
Monstrous is almost an understatement.

Looking at it I had a small thought.  Besides compressing and
rotating the logs, you could pre-process them by doing something as
grep "<<<" <logfile.name> > incoming.messages and 
grep ">>>" <logfile.name> > outgoing.messages, of course
using part of the date command to give you dated message files.
That would make things a trifle bit more manageable.

Thanks for expanding my knowledge base.

Bill

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