[H-GEN] Sendmail - sent messages

[Greg Black]

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David Duffy wrote:

| I have several Win98SE client machines using Eudora that access
| our server via IMAP. What I would like to do is save a copy of every
| sent message to the users "sent-mail" mail directory on the server.

I trust that you have established that you're permitted to do
this -- privacy regulations, published organisational policy,
users' wishes, etc., are all possible areas of conflict with
such a plan.

Assuming that it's a legitimate activity, there is a simple
solution that could be developed in a few minutes (and which
would work with other MTAs as well as sendmail): write a small
server that listens to the SMTP port on the designated host,
checks that the incoming connection is from one of the machines
in question, saves the message as required, and hands it on to
the real MTA for delivery.

Greg

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