Re: MTA with automatic per user bcc support?
Okay, i think i get it. But if sendmail can use the same sort of
solution i'd rather use sendmail because i know sendmail better... do
you know how to do this in sendmail?
Thanks!
Victor Julien
On Wed, 2002-07-03 at 10:42, Vineet Kumar wrote:
> /me returns discussion to list:
>
> * Victor Julien (lists@huizehofstee.xs4all.nl) [020703 01:10]:
> > I didn't make myself clear i think, so i'll try again:
> >
> > I basicly want 2 things:
> >
> > 1. when an email is incoming for john@foo.com i want to be able to have
> > an automatic bcc to johns_department@foo.com and/or
> > johnshomeaddress@home.com. In our old mailserver this is an option
> > called 'bcc in'. Does this work with aliasing? I to be able to bcc to
> > external addresses as well as local users.
> >
> > should this work?:
> > /etc/aliases (for domain foo.com):
> >
> > #begin aliasses
> > john: johns_department@foo.com johnhomeaddress@home.com
> > #end aliasses
> >
> > This should mean that every email send to john@foo.com is delivered to
> > local user john, local user johns_department and is also send to
> > johnshomeaddress@home.com
>
> Almost there. The real alias line you want to effect what you describe
> in the above line is this:
>
> john:john,johns_department@foo.com,johnhomeaddress@home.com
>
> > 2. when john sends an email i want to be able to have the message
> > automaticly bcc-ed to e.g. johnsmanager@foo.com or to
> > johnshomeaddress@home.com. In our old mailserver this is an option
> > called 'bcc out'.
>
> Well, I learned something new today. This can be done with a system
> filter. See the exim faq, Q9810 and Q9811 .
>
> Also, just a little further down the page:
>
> Q9817: I need to take copies of all incoming and outgoing mail for
> certain users. For each user there may be a different monitoring
> address.
>
> I'll not spoil the ending: go see for yourself ;-)
>
> http://www.exim.org/FAQ.html#SEC364
>
> >
> > This is not only to be able to read your mail at home, but also for a
> > manager to check the incoming and outgoing mail of his employees without
> > them knowing it.
> >
> > This is an option the systemadministrator can set, not the user
> > him/herself.
>
> Yes, only the admin can play with the system filter and the aliases
> file, in a traditional setup.
>
> good times,
> Vineet
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