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

[Christopher Fowler]

I'm not sure if sendmail has a feature to store the emails.

For our system I have a program which sits between sendmail and the
network.  It accepts a connection on port 25 and it then connect to
sendmail.  It logs everything to a file.  I can always go into this file
and see who sent what. I also have a program somewhere that can extract
all attachments and mime decode them back to their original form :)

On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 14:39 -0400, 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?
> 
> This is Sendmail 8.13.1.
> 
> Jeffrey C. Lightner
> 
> Unix Systems Administrator
> 
> DS Waters of America, LP
> 
> 678-486-3516
> 
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