Matt Hayes wrote:
On 12/13/2010 9:31 PM, Jerrale G wrote:
How would you store a CC of all mailings relayed through postfix, sent
by our users. We have plenty of logs but they dont tell us if someone
sends spam and how much, so that we may reprimand the user early before
ending up on spam lists. We could even use other third party software to
track and collect the mailings stored within the folders. We do require
everyone to store messages in their sent items but we do NOT traverse
the users' mail folders for privacy and they could also delete the spam
messages, from the sent folder, after sending.
The idea is to keep a copy ourselves for reference and only be able to
reference the mailing by the queue id in the mail log; we dont want
other admins to be able to search for a specific user's mailings,
within the CC folder, by the originating user's email address or such,
which means we will have to obfuscate certain headers before storing in
the CC folder; for privacy and security, the only way any admin should
be able to track sent mail is by the queue id reported by the receiving
smtpd postmaster. If another remote postmaster says they are receiving
mail from our system, they may or may not include a copy as long as they
tell us the queue id(s), for privacy of their end user.
Happy Holidays,
Jerrale Gayle
SC Senior Admin
BCC'ing all of your user's email is unethical IMHO. Scan outgoing and
incoming email for spam; done. That way you aren't compromising your
users' private information nor possible security to your clients.
-Matt
Not unethical or compromising private data. If the information can be
sniffed unencrypted on the wire it is already compromised. Most email
administrators already have access to mail stores where the same data is
stored unencrypted. A company's mail server and storage is not for
personal use and anyone sending e-mail they want to be private should
not use public/unecrypted methods.
