Re: Archiving mail passing through

Quoting Martin Gregorie's message of Friday:

I don't know about sendmail (I retired frustrated after trying to learn it from the O'Reilly book - easily the worst one they sell) and installed Postfix instead. I found it easy to install and configure. Generally speaking it "just works".

Yes, I'll be exploring other software if sendmail (or my level of sendmail expertise) isn't up to the job, but if I go down that route, I ought to think about waiting till I've upgraded the server first.

The reason I installed it was to automatically archive all incoming and outgoing mail. That was easy: just add an "always_bcc foo" directive to main.cf and a copy of every inbound and outbound message is sent to foo where I use procmail to organize it into mbox files.

This might well work for me. I'd thought about the MTA doing the filtering, but that isn't really appropriate if it can just copy everything that comes into the server to an account that has procmail working.

Thanks to you and Tony for your help.

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