[H-GEN] Sendmail - sent messages

[Robert Brockway]

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On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Greg Black wrote:

> 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.

Hi Greg.  I was going to mention potential legal implications as a result 
of recent legislation & common law on email.  I promptly forgot to I'm 
glad you mentioned this aspect.
 
> 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.

This is a great solution to the problem, and as Greg says is not tied to a 
particular MTA so it is highly portable for later use.

Cheers,
	-Rob

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