Saw this on digg. Brilliant.
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And lastly, we ran "postmap /etc/postfix/sender_bcc_map" and reloaded Postfix with a "postfix reload" command.
For those of you that aren't Postfix gurus (look at those hands!), what we effectively did was tell the mail server to blind-carbon-copy every email that the CFO sends out to the 'allemps' alias that we created. The allemps alias contained no management personnel. =)
This worked out better than we could ever have possibly dreamed.
Remember how I said we were there working late? Well as luck would have it, the CFO was up late at home checking emails and taking care of business (so to speak).
At 11:10PM, the CFO sent the following email, which was BCC'd to all non-management employees.
DATE: Fri, XX XXX 200X 23:10:03
TO: billing@[email protected]
FROM: [email protected]
SUBJECT: MY ACCOUNT
This is the second time I have written you about my account 'randyboy' being terminated for non-payment. I have re-entered the credit card number (XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX), the expiration date (XX-XXXX) and the CVE number (XXX) and it still will not turn my account back on. I have been a customer for several years, and this billing problem is ridiculous. I demand that you activate my account or refund my $39.99 membership fee for the past two months.Holy crap! Our timing was unreal. Every non-management employee now knew :
1) The CFO was a long-time member of a European pr0n site that featured 17-yo girls in nudie pictures.
2) The CFO's personal credit card number, including expiration date and CVE number
3) The CFO was quite pissed about not having access to the site
He finished off the evening by replying to a couple of companies that were interested in acquiring us, and the emails weren't trimmed at all. Everyone saw the entire conversation from beginning to end. Good thing that the CFO doesn't follow our own e-mail etiquette policy, huh?
Needless to say a flurry of emails occurred between us non-management employees over the weekend. Neither of us admitted to being the instigators, however we're pretty sure everyone figured out it was us.
A few of the more senior non-management employees contacted the board of directors and disclosed a pile of emails that contained conversations between the CEO, COO and CFO on 'back door' compensations for making this deal go through. They were essentially screwing the board (which was compromised mostly of investors!), the employees and everyone else they could find.
The board met in a private meeting, and summarily terminated the employment of all three executives. They had golden parachutes, netting them each a year's salary. However, the acquisition deal didn't go through - and the board appointed new executives that were honest and they have built us into a nice 300-employee self-sustaining company. We have profit-sharing now, and a list of other benefits that would make most Fortune 500 companies jealous.
I'll leave the moral of the story up to the reader.
GoldenEEL *
