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Old 11-14-2012, 10:04 AM   #1
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Email solutions - accessing a corporate email down the line


Hello,

Im hoping you can help as I do not really know what im asking for!!

We are a web development firm with a linux server. For years weve hosted email for hundreds of clients with no issues.

Yesterday a newish company came to me with a request that I dont know how I can fulfil as we are not linux experts - Im hoping someone here can!

They want to at any time in future be able to access an email that was sent in or out of their domains email accounts incase it was ever needed for proof or evidence in anything.

Can anyone point me in the right direction please!!

Thanks
 
Old 11-14-2012, 04:45 PM   #2
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Hi,

The feature you're looking for is called email archiving.
If you're using postfix, this can be implemented with the "always_bcc" option. For qmail it's done with the "qmail tap" patch and for sendmail there is some milter
So depending of your MTA, use your favorite search engine to see what you need to do.

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Old 11-14-2012, 05:52 PM   #3
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Thanks very much for your help - despite searching for archiving methods I hadnt been able to find anything

We use qmail so qmail-tap looks as though it will cover perfectly what we need to do.

Now we just need somewhere to store the emails. Does anyone have any experience?

Im thinking a gmail account since they are a lot easier to search if an old email ever needed to be found.

Thanks
 
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For legal requirements (as hinted ), save them off-line on write-only media eg DVD.
(no tampering)

Note also that (I believe), none of the popular sites like gmail, yahoo GUARANTEE to not lose stuff; its just a best effort that is usually(!) good enough.
You're hinting at a much more definite requirement ie off-line backups.

Whatever plan you come up with, run it past the client BEFORE implementing it....
 
  


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