general sendmail question

Craig Tinson craig at 8010.co.uk
Sat Nov 29 02:19:23 UTC 2003


sounds like the cc option is what he is after.. a copy of *all* emails..

I've had a look through sendmail.cf but can't see any cc option.. do you 
have any more info or any links on this option?

cheers

Craig



fedora wrote:

>the sendmail cf option has a cc option but if I recall thats for all 
>email. You probably dont want to do that.
>
>Instead you may find a more flexible solution with procmail, heres a site 
>with a bunch of procmail links
>
>http://rhols66.adsl.netsonic.fi/era/procmail/links.html
>
>-greg
>
>
>On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, Don wrote:
>
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>>On Fri, 2003-11-28 at 12:19, Craig Tinson wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>guys.. have a quick query..
>>>
>>>my boss has asked me to setup sendmail so that any email that goes out 
>>>through it from his employees gets auto'cc'd to him..
>>>
>>>this is to be done with sendmail so that the emplyees don't know it's 
>>>happening.. is this do-able?
>>>      
>>>
>>I don't know if that's as easy as a config line.... but what you want to
>>do is create an additional RCPT TO: <boss-e-mail-address> PRIOR to the
>>smtp DATA command. (Note the < and > are part of the smtp syntax.)
>>
>>There's no need to put the cc: in the rfc822 headers if you really want
>>it to be done secretly. (and cc: would be seen by all recipients anyway,
>>so it wouldn't be secret for long.)
>>
>>By using RCPT TO: without putting it in the "envelope" you effectively
>>create a "bcc:" (blind courtesy copy)
>>
>>This sort of thing has other uses... all e-mail can be copied to another
>>location to be archived... a copy of a reply could also be sent to the
>>same archival place and effectively all e-mail communications are
>>recorded...
>>
>>Don
>>
>>
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