[NBLUG/talk] Mailsystem keeping copies

Tim C. Lewis tclewis at oreilly.com
Tue Sep 13 16:30:08 PDT 2005


qmail can be easily adjusted to do so, if desired.  the "extra.h" file in 
qmail's source has:
#define QUEUE_EXTRA ""
#define QUEUE_EXTRALEN 0

adjust this to, for example:
#define QUEUE_EXTRA "Tmsglog\0"
#define QUEUE_EXTRALEN 8

and build normally, then use a /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-msglog (if you 
installed to /var/qmail) file to direct where all such copies should be 
delivered.  Bruce Guenter has a source rpm package that includes this 
msglog patch at:
http://untroubled.org/

i don't know how to accomplish this with postfix/sendmail/etc offhand.

-tcl.


On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Walter Hansen wrote:

> AFAIK no default linux mailsystem keeps a copy of incoming or outgoing
> email. Is this correct. About the most that is kept is a record that the
> email was sent or recieved, right?
>
> This sounds like something that would be a real nightmare to set up and
> administer if it did do it.
>
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