Re: [cobalt-users] how to add hidden bcc?

["Jalon Q. Zimmmerman" <jalonz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

* Dan Kriwitsky <list1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2003-03-13 11:13]:
> 
> > >
> > > man procmail
> > 
> > OUTbound mail? Procmail is usually best with INbound mail. I 
> > lurk on the 
> > procmail list, and it seems like every few weeks someone 
> > comes in and asks 
> > how to do this. The answer is usually, "Outbound mail doesn't 
> > go through 
> > procmail without some special sendmail tweaking. Go ask 
> > sendmail people."
> > 
> > Is there something about procmail I'm missing?
> > 
> 
> OK, I guess I misunderstood the question and just read "sent to" when he
> said "sent by". I don't think there's any way on a RaQ being used for
> SMTP relay to do this. I think you need to do this on the sender's 
> end.

lets say you have a 13 year-old kid who wants their email and is willing 
to let "Big Brother" monitor everything. how would you go about it?

the first question might be addressed at the practicality of even trying 
to do something like this. Hotmail, Yahoo and other free webmail 
accounts abound.

academically, a mail filter rule should be able to be placed in the 
subject's Outlook Express or whatever to cc a copy of any outgoing mail 
to another address. if you are running webmail on the Raq, then using 
the webmail interface bypasses that though.

for a younger kid's email, who simply delights in sending mail and 
doesnt care about getting out from under the watchful eye of a 
higher-up, a simple outbound cc: mail rule would probably work.

or, even easier, make the user use openwebmail only. then you can simply 
login and see their received and sent email.

I dont think there is a good way to "tee" a copy of outbound email at 
the mail server, its probably easier at the mail client.

inbound mail is easy enough - set the email account as an alias that 
redirects to two real accounts.