scan outgoing mails

[Julian Field]

At 12:49 25/10/2002, you wrote:
>How I can scan outgoing e-mails? I use suse 7.2 + sendmail . Any way to
>check the outgoing messages? My server is both used for in/out messages. How
>could I pass the ougoing messages to sendmail port 25 and then send them? I
>can't use exim. I suppose someone is using sendmail + scans both
>incoming+outgoing messages to give me a little bit of help

Modern versions of sendmail (8.12) handle locally generated messages in
pretty much the same way as external messages, so MailScanner will scan
them. So that's one solution.

The other solution is to make your email client application send SMTP to
"localhost" rather than invoke sendmail directly. Find the options for
specifying a remote SMTP server, and just set the server name to
"localhost". That will force mail to come in via port 25.
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