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

[James P. Kinney III]

http://www.mhonarc.org/archive/html/procmail/2001-08/msg00133.html

looks ugly and sort of old. but it is supposed to do what you are trying
to do, save a copy of all outgoing messages.

On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 15:59 -0400, Jeff Lightner wrote:
> Have a developer alter his code rather than an Admin address its
> deficiencies?  What kind of apostate are you?  :-)
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of JK
> Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 3:50 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] How can I save Sendmail relayed mqueue messages?
> 
> Jeff Lightner wrote:
> 
> > 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?
> 
> Of course your exect circumstances may mitigate against this,
> but it seems to me that it would be simpler (as in, more
> transparent to users and maintainers) to have the process that
> *generates* the message write them to an archive directory,
> as well as to the sendmail socket.
> 
> -- JK
> 
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