[BUGS] Thoughts on storing copy of out going mail

[Jerahmy Pocott]

On 28/05/2008, at 7:39 AM, Edwin Groothuis wrote:

> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 01:28:36PM +1000, Andrew Reilly wrote:
>>
>> This is normally done by the MUA.  Is there any particular
>> reason for wanting the MTA to be involved?  I can see that you
>> might want to argue reliability, but if you're putting the saved
>> sent mail back in a mailbox in the user's directory, then they
>> can just mess with it after the fact anyway.
>
> If you have multiple locations where you send mail from (webmail,
> pc, laptop, pc secretary) then it can be nice to have all your
> outgoing mail stored on the IMAP server too.

In the past I'v had the MUA doing this, but the two major reasons for  
having the MTA do it are firstly what Edwin already stated above and  
secondly as you mentioned, reliability. I'v found that with outlook  
especially, it simply isn't at all reliable. It will actually fail  
silently and then never attempt to perform the action again! At first  
I thought users had been messing with it, but it's actually the  
software, it's hopeless..

And I neglected to mention that the users mailbox has an ACL set on it  
that only allows them to list, read and add mail, they cannot delete  
it from the server..