# Filebeat for Emails

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-for-emails/179659>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [May 5, 2019, 9:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-for-emails/179659 "2019-05-05T09:09:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kostas\_Gush](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kostas_gush/32/45558_2.png) [@Kostas\_Gush](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kostas_Gush)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2019, 9:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-for-emails/179659/1 "2019-05-05T09:09:39Z")

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Hello,

I am trying to develop something like the Hunting ELK, or HELK, which can be found in github. The final project should handle in some way phishing emails.

For the first step I need to somehow get the emails to some kind of logging, so I can then get them into the ELK stack for further analysis.

Is there any way for filebeat to perform such a task, or is there any tool to automatically export emails to a log file that filebeat will read from?

I am new to the ELK stack, so any relevant information will be appreciated.

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2019, 9:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-for-emails/179659/2 "2019-05-05T09:12:05Z")

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Logstash might be more what you want there, it has an imap input.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2019, 9:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-for-emails/179659/3 "2019-06-02T09:17:49Z")

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