Re: Re: Cloning/Splitting Mail at SMTP level (Les Mikesell)

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>   4. Re: Cloning/Splitting Mail at SMTP level (Les
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>Message: 4
>Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 14:23:40 -0600
>From: Les Mikesell <lesfuturesource.com>
>Subject: Re: [Mimedefang] Cloning/Splitting Mail at SMTP
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>David F. Skoll wrote:
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>>> Jeremy Phillips wrote:
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>>>>>    After a couple hours of searching on
the Internet I've come up with
>>>>> this mailing list, and was wondering if
anyone has used MIMEDefang in an
>>>>> application similar to this situation? 
Can MIMEDefang do these
>>>>> processes at the SMTP level so mail
that comes in get's scanned by our
>>>>> spam appliance, and also send to
another external account for analysis?
>>>      
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>>> 
>>> Sure.  Pseudocode in filter_end:
>>> 
>>> foreach my $recip (Recipients) {
>>> 	add_recipient(localpart($recip) . 'test.example.com');
>>> }
>>> 
>>> You then configure a box to accept mail for
"test.example.com"
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>Is anyone doing something like this to have
archive/backup copies or 
>comply with email retention regulations?  In that case
you'd have to 
>treat local and remote recipients differently.
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> -- Les Mikesell lesmikesellgmail.com
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I had a customer a little over a year and a half ago who had
the 
requirement that supervisors get copies of emails received
by their 
first-level subordinates (example illustrated below). I
installed 
mime-defang, modified a mimedefang-filter to
stream_by_domain, disabled 
the filtering normally done (which was being done on other
servers 
instead), created a couple of database tables, and edited
filter_end() 
to look at the addresses present, look up to whom copies
should be 
forwarded, then executed appropriate add_recipient()
commands as needed. 
The code only looked at those addresses in Recipients that matched a 
pattern I had for their domain name, and all the management
of who to 
forward from/to is taken care of in database tables (which
could (at 
some point) have a nice front-end wrapped around it (a year
later, and 
that's still on my list-php*admin works, though)).

Example:
    Joe is Bob's supervisor
    Bob is Steve's supervisor
    Expected behavior:
       If email to Bob, Joe should receive a copy
       If email to Steve, Bob should receive a copy, Joe
should not 
receive a copy

(My code for this was a bit ugly, but it has worked so far.
If you're 
interested, contact me off-list.)

-Albert C.
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