need help about sendmail

[Opesh Alkara]

Great Help!

I'll give it a shot.

Thanks Nilesh!

-- 
Best,
Opesh


On 5/26/06, nilesh vaghela <nileshj.vaghela at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> try this.
>
> http://www.nber.org/sys-admin/copy-out.html
>
> Copying all mail to Archive *The following is probably made obsolete by
> this
> <http://www.technoids.org/procmailfilter.html>.[note added 13July2005*
>
> One of the most common questions on comp.mail.sendmail is "How do I get
> sendmail to archive copies of outgoing mail". This question is usually
> left
> unanswered, as the more influential members of the sendmail community
> think
> that is an improper action. They are apparently thinking of an ISP
> snooping
> on its customers. I expect the more likely case is a business such as a
> brokerage which is legally required to keep copies of correspondence, for
> understandable reasons.
>
> Some mailers make this easy. Postfix has "bcc: always" option that solves
> this problem with a single request.
>
> Anthony C Howe has posted milter-bcc
> <http://www.milter.info/milter-bcc/index.shtml> which appears to duplicate
> the Postfix ability in Sendmail. See also
> Synonym<http://www.modulo.ro/synonym/>from Modulo Consulting.
>
> The Sendmail FAQ does offer three suggestions for doing this, but except
> for
> one, they require extensive modification to sendmail, and it is clear that
> they are not offered in the expectation that they will be implemented.
>
> In the FAQ, and in the newsgroup, it is also suggested that Procmail can
> do
> this. Most people making this suggestion are merely confused, since if you
> install procmail as documented, it only sees incoming mail. Since it never
> sees outgoing mail, it isn't going to be able to save copies. However it
> turns out that there is a way to install procmail to process outgoing
> mail.
> I haven't tried it myself, but I did track down the available
> instructions,
> and have copied them below. There is obviously room for someone to
> actually
> try to document this in simple terms for sendmail users of less than guru
> status. As a start, one could consult this
> <http://www.technoids.org/procmailfilter.html>. [Note added September 2005
> -
> Procmail scanning of outbound mail has apparently been added to Sendmail,
> if
> not to the FAQ. See here <http://www.sendmail.org/m4/mailers.html>.
>
> The sendmail FAQ includes a reference to a comp.mail.sendmail posting
> using
> only * 33AA593A.4B701C3F at syntegra.nl * for the citation. While some users
> might know to go to the Google Groups "Advanced Search" page, others may
> not. I expect this page will come up for anyone searching in the Google
> web
> engine for that message-id, thus letting the uninitiated see the posting
> referred to.
>
>
> Viewing message <33AA593A.4B701C3F at syntegra.nl>
>
>
> From: Homme Bitter (H.Bitter at syntegra dotte nl)
> Subject: Solution for copying all mail to archive
> Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
> View: (This is the only article in this thread) | Original Format
> Date: 1997/06/20
>
>
> It took me some time, but,
> I have it solved...
> This can also be used as a general purpose mailfilter too, excellent for
> detecting spam and other unpleasant things.
>
> Solution:
>
> Let sendmail map everything through procmail, let procmail do to your
> mail whatever you want with it and map it back.
>
> That was the easy part...
> Now for the syntax.
>
> Add some local rules to your m4 config file ( use m4, ALWAYS ! ).
>
> MAILER(`procmail')dnl
> LOCAL_RULE_0
> R$*<@$*.procmail>$* $1@<$2>$3 map back of procmail copy
> LOCAL_RULE_0
> R$*<@$+>$* $#procmail $@/etc/procmailrc $:$1@$2procmail$3 send all
> external mail to procmail
>
> this will send all mail through procmail using the file /etc/procmailrc
> as the config file for procmail.
>
> I use this one:
>
> :0 c:
> /var/mail/archive
>
> Once I found this all out ( with a little help, I might add ). it all
> seemed so simple....
>
> Maybe this would be a good item to add to the faq, since it is a general
> purpose add on for sendmail that can be used for many useful purposes.
>
> Known problems:
> Sending to a top leve domain doesn't work, it somehow looses a dot, but
> then again, there are no mailaddresses in toplevedomains, to my
> knowledge, so, who cares.
> This version only works for mail wit a @ sign in the address, it's kind
> of hard to split up an address that consists of only one string.
>
> Good luck, I hope the mail-commutity is happy with this.
>
> Homme
>
>
>
>
>
> Also see this message:
> From: Per Hedeland (per at hedeland.org)
> Subject: Re: Using procmail to archive outbound fails - buildaddr: no user
> Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
> View this article only
> Date: 2002-04-13 03:30:06 PST
>
>
> In article <m1vgawb6x8.fsf at reader.newsguy.com> Harry Putnam
> <reader at newsguy.com> writes:
> >
> > MAILER(`procmail')dnl
> > LOCAL_RULE_0
> > R$*<@$*.procmail>$* $1@<$2>$3 map back of procmail copy
> > LOCAL_RULE_0
> > R$*<@$+>$* $#procmail $@/etc/procmailrc $:$1@$2procmail$3 send
> all
> > external mail to procmail
> >
> >After first getting the tabs right (I think), I inserted the above
> >into my.mc and generated sendmail.cf
>
> You *didn't* get the tabs right - it should be like this (no need for
> multiple LOCAL_RULE_0 directives), where I have used <TAB> instead
> of
> actual tab(s):
>
> LOCAL_RULE_0
> R$*<@$*.procmail>$*<TAB>$1@<$2>$3<TAB>map back of
> procmail copy
> R$*<@$+>$*<TAB>$#procmail $@/etc/procmailrc
> $:$1@$2procmail$3<TAB>send all
> external mail to procmail
>
> Btw, it's probably better to do this with a milter these days.
>
> --Per Hedeland
> per at hedeland.org
> --
> Nilesh Vaghela
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