[ale] How can I save Sendmail relayed mqueue messages?

Jeff Lightner jlightner at water.com
Wed Aug 30 14:39:51 EDT 2006


In normal operation Sendmail puts the message files in /var/spool/mqueue
to be sent out then deletes the entries once the message is sent.  On a
new mail server this is working like a champ.

However since it is a mail server which we created to handle a new
domain for automated billing message there is a desire to see the actual
text of the messages we are sending out.  (Messages are originating from
an Oracle process on another server and being relayed through this one
to the outside world.)

Of course a while loop could be created to try to copy the files as they
are created but it would likely be fairly hit or miss and also would
likely chew up a lot of CPU.

I'm wondering if there is an adjustment that can be made to sendmail.cf
that would make it either hold the messages after sent or duplicate the
ones sent to another directory?

This is Sendmail 8.13.1.

Jeffrey C. Lightner
Unix Systems Administrator
DS Waters of America, LP
678-486-3516


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