[BUGS] Thoughts on storing copy of out going mail

[Andrew Reilly]

On Wed, 28 May 2008 07:39:44 +1000
Edwin Groothuis <edwin at mavetju.org> wrote:

> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 01:28:36PM +1000, Andrew Reilly wrote:
> > On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 10:55:43AM +1000, Jerahmy Pocott wrote:
> > > Just looking for some thoughts on an elegant way of storing a copy of  
> > > any mail sent by sendmail on a per-user basis.. I can make them all  
> > > use smtp auth to send mail through the server, so it should be fairly  
> > > easy to tell who is sending it even if they use different addresses..  
> > > Or go by the mail from: address.. But how would be best to actually  
> > > get a copy of it? I want to add them to an existing mbox file in the  
> > > specific uses home directory..
> > 
> > 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.

Of course.  Don't your MUA's allow that?  I use at least three
different MUAs[*], and at least three different SMTP servers,
depending on which network and for what purpose I'm mailing.
And all of my outgoing messages wind up in the Sent folder on my
personal IMAP server[**].  That wouldn't happen if I was relying
on one of the SMTP servers to do it for me.

Cheers,

-- 
Andrew

[*] Claws-mail and mutt (very occasionally Evolution) on FreeBSD,
Mail.app on MacOS.  Sometimes Thunderbird on Windows.

[**] courier-imap