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From - Sat Sep  8 06:59:17 2001
Path: typhoon.ne.mediaone.net!chnws06.ne.mediaone.net!24.147.2.43!chnws02.mediaone.net!newsfeed2.skycache.com!newsfeed1.cidera.com!Cidera!netnews.com!xfer02.netnews.com!iad-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!iad-read.news.verio.net.POSTED!nosuchsite!bill
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sco.misc
From: bill@wjv.com (Bill Vermillion)
Subject: Re: copies of outgoing mail
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Organization: W.J.Vermillion - Orlando / Winter Park
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References: <lT3m7.555665$lq1.115824201@typhoon.austin.rr.com> 
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Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 16:22:39 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Host: 157.238.210.240
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In article <lT3m7.555665$lq1.115824201@typhoon.austin.rr.com>,
Juan  Salinas <jasalinas@satx.rr.com> wrote:
>My boss has asked to get copies of all outgoing mail
>form all employees.  I don't like it because of privacy issues, but
>I have to do it.  How do you setup sendmail to send a bcc or cc
>to any other account?

Well sendmail is a transport agent and the Bcc and Cc are part of 
a user agent which passes the data to sendmail [or what other mail
your may have].



My selective article archive shows that Danny Aldham posted about a
program called logall.c - just about a year ago in this newsgroup.
I don't recall if I've seen him posting lately.

Sendmail does have a debugging flag  -X <logfilename> but that
logs all parts of a sendmail connenction, the hand shake, all the header
information, all prepended by the process ID of the program at that
time.  Really ugly.  

If you handle a lot of mail you might want a dedicated HD for just
the logfiles :-)

Fabio Giannotti <fabiog@venmar.com> wrote:
> Running 5.0.5 with sendmail 8.8.8.
> Does anyone know how to do sendmail.cf "magic" to allow the server to keep a
> copy of all inbound and outbound mail?
> (Client needs this for legal CYA reasons...)

We have been using a shim called logall.c written by Axel Reinhold ,
<axel@freakout.db> , that is compiled into sendmail.If you would like
a copy let me know, and I can e-mail it to you. 




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Wed Aug 27 05:33:17 2008: Subject: Logall.c Issues   Anshul


hi frnds,
I've tried logall.c it works perfectly fine. It makes copies of every incoming & outgoing Mails

but there r some issues like it makes multiple copies of a single mail if the mail is send to different reciepient like To|Cc|Bcc.
it will the same no of copies of a mail depending upon the ids entered in To|cc|Bcc fields.

It also doesn't copy mails tagged as Spam in the subject. May be this could be bcoz of X-Spam headers.

if any one has some solution to it plz reply.

Anshul

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