keeping track of inbound and outbound emails

[zal]

Hello,

I wonder if you can help me with the following

There are 4 users and one of these is a manager who wants a copy of all inbound and outbound emails from other users to be sent to them. He wants to keep track whats coming in and going out. Is this possible without spending too much (<$500). Any suggestions on software or your own ideas.

If yes please advise.

Many Thanks

Zal

 

[postwick]

I don't know if it's still around, but a product made by Content Technologies called MimeSweeper worked very well. They were getting the interface tuned up nicely when I stopped working with the product. MailSweeper for SMTP is what you want.

here it is...

http://www.us.mimesweeper.com/

It essentially sits between your SMTP server and internet gateway, or firewall. You can create custom rules that allow you to do just about anything with the emails as they go through the &quot;filters&quot;. Re-routing copies like you want to do is very very easy.

I was impressed with it when I used it a few years ago.

 

[TheWiz2]

I hope the manager has carefully researched the legal and ethical implications of this kind of monitoring. Assuming that, most flavors of Linux have aliases that allow you to create &quot;virtual&quot; e-mail addresses. Messages sent to a virtual address are delivered to the mail file of one of more &quot;real&quot; addresses as defined in the aliases file. Check the man pages for aliases.

 

[postwick]

legally, no user has an expectation of privacy when it comes to their email accounts at work. it is HIGHLY important that your manager understand, however, that without a WRITTEN email policy that is distributed to all employees (SIGNED AND RETURNED by the employees is a good idea) they could still find themselves in legal troubles for monitoring employees' emails. I used to be a consultant for an email content management software company, so this is not speculation...this is what I learned on the job.

morally, I think a manager should be more straightforward with his/her employees. instead of being secretive, TALK to the employees and let them know that some monitoring is going to be going on because there have been abuses...