[lug] Monitor Email

[Peter Hutnick]

John E. Koontz said:

[A bunch of sensible stuff.]

John, great post!  Insightful on multiple points.  This is the stuff that
keeps me on the list!

jd,

"The problem" (outside of the larger social problem) is that your
mailserver isn't local, right?  Why not put in a local POP server and
either fetchmail for each user or have the domain host go down to a
catchall and multi-drop it on the local box?

The fetchmail-per-user solution is clunky (but less so than groveling
through TCP dumps), but requires no action by the domain host.  It isn't
very scalable, but neither is inspecting employee mail by hand (spit).

The multi-drop will give you a few growing pains (you have to split up
mail to all the employees when the domain host flips the switch) but can
be reasonably maintained.

Plus it is all old-school ;-)

I guess, since you are consulting, the easy to set up but hard to maintain
way is the way to go :-P

You can then block 25 both ways on the entire network, open up 25 outbound
for that mailserver and relay outgoing mail through it.

-Peter

PS: Anyone looking for a mail admin?  I get a perverse enjoyment out of
making mail work.