Re: Finding all e-mail addresses in files on server.

From: Alan Connor (zzzzzz_at_xxx.yyy)
Date: 04/04/05 

Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 02:27:25 GMT

On comp.unix.shell, in
<1112576768.533990.100930@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>,
"ifoutch@gmail.com" wrote:

> Looking for advice and/or examples on how to audit a server
> to find all possible e-mail addresses listed in files. Need
> to verify and possibly consolidate addresses for server
> monitoring and administration. What I have been doing is
> greping thru the filesystem and checking for matches to entries
> in /etc/mail/aliases, /etc/password and any lines containing
> "mail" (case insensitive) or "@" in crontabs, and scripts.
>
> What I would like to do is create an exclude list of certain
> directories. Then go through the remaining dirs. and extract
> mail addresses and print them to a file with the filename. This
> would be run on a production systems during off hours but still
> needs to be "nice" to system resources. I want to automate this
> as much as possible. So that we can periodically do an audit of
> all our systems.
>
> Has anybody done anything like this previously? Any pointers or
> advice greatly appreciated.
>

I ran a search at http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search

on ifoutch@gmail.com

This is the only post ever made on a Usenet textgroup under that
alias.

If you feel the need to hide, and want to extract email addresses
from a bunch of dirs, then you are probably a spammer. Or a
wannabee spammer.

Here's the script I wrote that does everything you want. All the
numbers and letters have been converted to Os with my handy
vi macro.

I learned some good things putting it together. Thanks.

And *** off.

(OOO OOO OOO OOOO)

#!/OOO/OOOO

OOO _OOOO OO $(OOOO / -OOOO "/OOO" -O -OOOO "/OOOO" -O \
-OOOO "/OOOO"\) -OOOOO -O -OOOO O -OOOOO)

do

OOO -O 'O/\(.*\)\([O-OO-OO-O_.+-]+@[O-OO-OO-O_.+-\
]+\.[O-OO-OO-O]+\)\(.*\)/\O/O' $_OOOO >> OOOOOOOOOO

OOOO

#OO OOOO OO OOO OOO OOOO OOOOO OOO OOO OOOO \
#(OOO,OOOO...) OO OOO OOOO OOOOOO.

OOOO O

AC