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Re: MTA with automatic per user bcc support?



* Derrick 'dman' Hudson (dman@dman.ddts.net) [020702 20:48]:
> On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 02:06:49AM +0200, Victor Julien wrote:
> | Hi,
> | 
> | The (other than that crappy) mailserver at my job supports 'bcc in' and
> | 'bcc out' per user. In this way an user can read his mail at home and at
> | work. I've searched on the sites of sendmail, exim and qmail for such a
> | feature, but i can't find it anywhere.
> | 
> | I'm looking for something like:
> | 
> | john: 	bccin: manager@foo.com bccout: john@home.com
> | ronald: bccin: manager@foo.com bccout: ronald@home.com
> | maria:	bccout: maria@home.com
> | harry:	bccin: harrys_department@foo.com
> | etc.
> | 
> | this should be in a file somewhere in the mailserver configdir.
> | 
> | Does anyone know how to do this? Does some MTA support it?
> 
> Oh! I think I just partially figured out WTF "bccin" and "bccout"
> mean.  That particular mail server (probably) likes to rewrite
> messages (headers) on you, so you need a special command to tell it
> not to.  I still don't know what "out" vs. "in" means.  All mail comes

The difference he's talking about is when seding mail (going "out") he
wants the MTA to rewrite the sender, and when mail comes "in", he wants
it delivered to a certain user. The latter is a traditional alias, and
the former is set up to work with /etc/email-addresses automatically in
the debian setup.

(At least that's how I interpret it -- I shouldn't speak for what he
meant, rather what I think he meant.)

good times,
Vineet
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