outgoing mails copy

[anand]

I have a strange requirement come to me from few customers who are moving from plesk to cpanel. It seems in plesk there is a feature to forward a copy of all outgoing mails send through SMTP/webmail to an email id which can be defined by the user itself. This allows administrators in companies to check what mail traffic is being using the company domain.

I understand using exim filters something like this can be achieved, is there someone who has done something like this ? I tried searching in the forums however none of the posts seemed to have any satisfying replies/ solution.

Any help would be appreciated.

[Aric1]

MailScanner can do that. Add MailWatch and the mail doesn't need to be forwarded, you can check it on-line via a browser. Chirpy has the MailScanner frontend for CPANEL that includes a WHM backend that can integrate MailWatch.

[anand]

MailScanner can do that. Add MailWatch and the mail doesn't need to be forwarded, you can check it on-line via a browser. Chirpy has the MailScanner frontend for CPANEL that includes a WHM backend that can integrate MailWatch.

Thx for the reply however i am looking at a solution which doesn't include mailscanner.

[anand]

anyone with solution to this ?

[webignition]

A bit of a vague suggestion . . .

If Plesk uses Exim, one would hope that the setting chosen through Plesk's interface changes something in the Exim configuration. If so, you could do the same, which would of course require a good look through the Exim documentation.

[NT]

As far as I know, Plesk uses qmail.

[anand]

As far as I know, Plesk uses qmail.

Yup thats what i thought.

[dgbaker]

You might be able to use something like the follow I found.

In exim.conf in system_filter.

if
 $sender_host_authenticated is not "" and $authenticated_id is not ""
then
 unseen deliver ${quote:$authenticated_id}+Sent@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
endif

That said, chirpy would be a good one to ask.

[chirpy]

I would imagine that it would indeed be the system filter that you would have to use some kind of coding , the main trick is ensuring that it is outgoing email that you are parsing and not incoming email. I would think that's what the condition statements are doing.

Have a play with what dgbaker posted, culd well work

[anand]

Thx guys, i will check it out.

[anton_latvia]

anand, did you manage to make it work? For some interesting reason I also have this request from one of our dedicated server owners.

[Ali]

Suprising as it is we have received similar requests too, customers wishing to keep a copy of Incoming and Outgoing emails exchanged via their business domains by banking/filing the mails on a specific email account.

[anand]

anand, did you manage to make it work? For some interesting reason I also have this request from one of our dedicated server owners.

Due to some other work in hand, i had to leave this problem in as it is condition. Do post if you guys find something on this. As dgbaker and chirpy said, system filters would be the solution for the same.

[AQHost]

Had a request for this too, and did it successfully with a filter in /etc/antivirus.exim

if $sender_address is monitored@address.com
then
 unseen deliver monitoring@address.com
endif

That will forward a copy of any mail sent by monitored@address.com to the monitoring@address.com mailbox. Copying the incoming mail is done easily with a standard forwarder.

[Zaf]

Had a request for this too, and did it successfully with a filter in /etc/antivirus.exim

if $sender_address is monitored@address.com
then
 unseen deliver monitoring@address.com
endif

That will forward a copy of any mail sent by monitored@address.com to the monitoring@address.com mailbox. Copying the incoming mail is done easily with a standard forwarder.

I believe that would only work for one email id only...could we do it for all mail ids for a domain or all domains even?