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[Jon Baer]

This may be complete overkill for what you need but for a bot/AI/auto- 
respond project I used phpcap to trap all inbound "requests" (110)  
and outbound "responses" (25) traffic + placed them into a database  
by timestamp and subject (which created the "threads") ...

http://alcane.newffr.com/phpcap/
(im not sure if this extension is maintained anymore or will work w/  
latest libpcap)

It was just smarter handling of the traffic since snort  
(www.snort.org) did not do what was neeed.  The benefit was that the  
emails were not touched.  (You can regex keywords on  
domain,to,from,cc,subject,body) to ~tag emails.

- Jon

On Jan 13, 2006, at 2:18 PM, Kenneth Downs wrote:

> OK, here's a brain teaser.  I've got my own answer in mind for  
> this, but
> I'd be really curious to see if anyone else has any ideas.
>
> The problem is simple:  All emails flowing through a certain domain  
> must
> be tracked and associated with a job in a database.  The following  
> rules
> apply:
>
> 1) Must not require re-inventing an SMTP server, or any C coding in an
> existing SMTP server.  By the same token we don't want to re-invent
> webmail and force everyone to use it.  Solution must be in pure PHP,
> though may use any plug-in or extension system that an SMTP server
> provides that allows coding in PHP.
>
> 2) Must require minimal if not zero change in habits for users.  For
> instace, requiring users to put complicated codes into their emails  
> won't
> work because people won't do it.
>
> 3) Some kind of pool of un-matchable emails should be available to an
> admin who then matches them to jobs.
>
> 4) Every email should slot into a job, and replies should be  
> sortable into
> threads by UI software.
>
> So how would you do that?
>
> -- 
> Kenneth Downs
> Secure Data Software
> 631-379-0010
> ken at secdat.com
> PO Box 708
> East Setauket, NY 11733
>
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