Filtering/storing outgoing mail...

[Scot L. Harris]

On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 12:27, Andrea Giuliano wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I would like to filter, or at least just store, any outgoing mail 
> message, not at a client level, but eventually at a lower level.
> 
> For instance, it would be enough to instruct postfix some way so that it 
> stores outgoing messages permanently somewhere before sendind them. They 
> usually stay for a while in /var/spool/mqueue, but when they are 
> actually send are removed from there.
> 
> I don't want to rely on the client, because I could change it sometime 
> (and I actually did it many times). I rather prefer a "system" solution. 
> Clearly, a per-user solution would be better in order to prevent users 
> to look at each other's mail, just like it happens with 
> /var/spool/mail/<user>.
> 
> Many thanks in advance.

I had to implement something similar recently.  In my case I am using
sendmail.  The solution I used was milter-bcc.

  http://www.milter.info/milter-bcc/index.shtml

This allows you to save messages from specific users.  Done at the
system level using the access file.  Worked well for my site.





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