Capture all incoming/outgoing email messages

Jeremy Chadwick freebsd at jdc.parodius.com
Fri Oct 6 20:19:57 UTC 2006


On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 10:11:17PM +0200, Dominik Zalewski wrote:
>   I know most of MTAs can do it but I dont want users to use local MTA for
> outgoing emails, plus this solution is just for outgoing emails , what about
> pop3 ?
> I just want to capture all smtp/pop3 traffic in packets level.

So what's stopping you?  tcpdump, Ethereal, sniffit, snort... they'll
all do this.  Anything that dumps to a libpcap formatted file can
be read back using tcpdump or Ethereal (Ethereal would be best, since
it can perform general formatting analysis on specific packets, such
as SMTP and POP3).

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