From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Sep 17 01:05:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id BAA27889 for isp-outgoing; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 01:05:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from homer.duff-beer.com (mail@homer.duff-beer.com [194.207.51.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA27879 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 01:05:55 -0700 (PDT) From: scot@poptart.org Received: from localhost (scot@localhost) by homer.duff-beer.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA17187; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 09:04:34 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 09:04:34 +0100 (BST) X-Sender: scot@homer.duff-beer.com To: Greg Lehey cc: xiyuan qian , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: backup the putgoing mail message? In-Reply-To: <19970917163824.14669@lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 17 Sep 1997, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Wed, Sep 17, 1997 at 02:18:14PM +0000, xiyuan qian wrote: > > Hi, Is there a way to backup the outgoing email messages at the mail server? > > This is an MUA function. Most of them do supply some means to save > the message. You can't allow the MTA to do it, because that would be > a breach of individual security. > Well you can if you don't care about privacy... try the -X sendmail option - eg sendmail -bd -q30 -X /var/log/sendmail.log to start it up, and the line: O LogLevel=9 in sendmail.cf. But I agree - it's not a very polite thing to do. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scot Elliott scot@poptart.org Tel: +44 (0)181 9322042 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Public key available by finger at: finger scot@poptart.org or at: http://www.poptart.org/pgpkey.html