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I use Solaris 9 as my email serverand want to track/keep a copy of all the email that comes and goes through the box.  Is there a configuration on the server that I can do to make this happen?  I am fairly new to the operating system so I will need details on how to make this happen. Thanks
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what mail server u are using. ie imap/pop3
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POP3 is a protocol for a client to access a mail store. It is not an E-mail server.

So, you ave a Solaris v9 server, and you have clients who connect to it and retrieve E-Mail using the POP3 protocol. Right?

What is your mailserver (Mail Transfer Agent, or MTA) software? sendmail? qmail? PostFix?
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I use sendmail. All very good points! Is it posible to do this for certain accounts?
Since you use sendmail, I'd look into something like ProcMail, which allows you to add rules-based mail processing to sendmail. I honestly don't *know* that ProcMail will do what you want, because I haven't tried it, but of the tools of which I am aware, I think ProcMail has the best shot at implementing what you want to do.

http://www.procmail.org/
Although it does mean building your own copy of Sendmail, the logall.c (http://www.netsys.com/library/sendmail/logall.c) addition to Sendmail is probably the best way of doing this. As mentioned it will log every message once that passes through your server. And that can eat up disk space at a rapid rate if you have a significant volume of mail. If you are only interested in a few addresses you could post-process the mbox each day to recover just the messages of interest.
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