[BUGS] Thoughts on storing copy of out going mail

[Jerahmy Pocott]

On 27/05/2008, at 9:59 PM, Andrew Reilly wrote:

> 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.

As do mine..

But if you were using outlook and for ANY reason it wasn't able to put  
your mail into the sent folder, it would silently fail and then NEVER  
attempt to put your mail in there ever again..

My users aren't really clued enough to use multiple SMTP servers, so I  
let them access the main server with SMTP AUTH regardless of what  
network they are on (this also involved using a different port as  
Optus silently drops anything out going to port 25). Of course if I  
could rely on the users I wouldn't need to worry about any of this in  
the first place, hehe..

I'm also don't really want to have to configure all their various  
MUAs.. The best solution for me is to get the MTA to take care of it..