Re: [SLUG] Sending copies of emails

[Norman Widders <torquemada@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Grant Parnell wrote:

1. use Synonym which is a milter for sendmail, no messing
around and playing with kludges/aliases. why reinvent the wheel
or write scripts or replace an existing MTA? (flames -> /dev/null)
took me an hour to get it working without breaking anything.

2. synonym works for *all* in/out email saving a backup real easy
you might want to investigate it..

cheers
Norm

> If you're talking system wide and you want to cover *all* email going
> through your server (in and out via SMTP) then you can install
> obtuse-smtpd which is different from the qmail smtpd. Essentially it


> You could configure it to receive email into one directory then write a
> simple shell script to copy to archive directory and to a processing
> directory where the smtpfwdd process passes it onto sendmail or other
> MTA's. This also has the benefit that you can shutdown sendmail to
> work/config/experiment on whilst still receiving and spooling email until
> you're ready.

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