topic Re: sendmail catch all account in Operating System - Linux

sendmail catch all account

kcpant — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 06:40:30 GMT

Hi friends,

I'm using sendmail 8.12 in a place, where the big boss wants to track all incoming and outgoing mails. for incoming mails to all users, I made it successfully by adding aliases to all reciepents, like

abc: abc, master
xyz: xyz, master

and so on, the master is the user who will get a copy of all incoming mails. problem is, how to track outgoing mails? incoming mails is solved by the above solution, but I don't have any idea to 'trap' a copy of outgoing mails.

witing for a '10 pointer'

thanks & regards

Re: sendmail catch all account

Bojan Nemec — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 06:57:02 GMT

kcpant,

Seems that this will be difficult. Look at the sendmail faq:

http://www.sendmail.org/faq/section4.html#4.20

There are some unsupported hints.

Bojan

Re: sendmail catch all account

Bindumadhava.V_1 — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 02:43:55 GMT

Hi kcpant,

Not sure about bigboss, but usually maillog will be having all smtp related activities. Many free tools such as 'awstats' can give you log report of outgoing mails in details.

But need to check how you can integrate with Bigboss.

Regards
Bindumadhava.

Re: sendmail catch all account

Dave Falloon — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 10:35:48 GMT

KC I think you are looking for something along these lines:

http://www.geocities.com/sbmilbur/sendmail/

He uses a different version of sendmail 8 but you should be able to twist his config to make it work. Not a lot of black magic, but as always when dealing with a sendmail config file, make sure to perform the ritual sacrifice of a double espresso and repeat the sacred chant, "Please work, please work, its late, and I don't want to be here anymore, so please work" and if that doesn't work there is always qmail.

:)

--Dave

Re: sendmail catch all account

kcpant — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 00:44:02 GMT

Hi Dave,

There is something which I want to tell you ( don't be surprised), I found sendmail setup more easier than qmail. No matter people say qmail is more secure, but there are hundreds of utilities, Antivirus and scanners available for sendmail which make it at par....

Now, about this thread, now I don't want to make happy my big boss by tracking and catching all mails of all employees( after all, everybody deserves some level of privacy :) ), so thread is open for just a curiosity if it is possible in sendmail.

Re: sendmail catch all account

Dave Falloon — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 09:51:01 GMT

Did the copyuser m4 from the link I pasted not work for you? It worked on my workstation here, but I was using the exact same sendmail verison as the author.

--Dave

Re: sendmail catch all account

kcpant — Sat, 02 Apr 2005 00:04:46 GMT

hi Dave,

I haven't tried the m4 from the link you sent ( I'm busy in some other jobs from last week), I'll try it when ever I'll have some spare time.

Thnks for help