hello!!!
we need to keep a backup of outgoing mails((not incoming to an account)) through our smtp mail server...how could that be made possible??
any solutions?? we are using sendmail...

Use "Synonym" for this purpose. using that you can log all outgoing mails to one specific account or even can log outgoing mails to per user basis.

what is Synonym n how can we implement it in our mail server...
please be kind enough to reply.....

Use the following link:
http://http://www.modulo.ro/Modulo/e...s/Synonym.html

My Distro was RHEL4 with sendmail as MTA and procmail as LDA.

I think you've messed up the url there.

It should be http://www.modulo.ro/Modulo/en/Products/Synonym.html

oops sorry.

hello!!! thanks a lot!!!
but the synonym(stable version) couldnot be installed using tar package coz command `make' and make install didnot work i wonder why??
so i did install the synonym rpm package..and it did install....
now when i modified the /etc/mail/sendmail.mc as instruted in the README file.i.e
by adding two lines

define('_FFR_MILTER', "true')
INPUT_MAIL_FILTER'Synonym', 'S=local:/var/run/synonym/synonym.sock, T=C:10m;S:1s;R:1s;E:5m')

and did m4 <sendmail.mc > sendmail.cf
and restarted sendmail,it gave the following errors

"cannot stop smclient "/var/run/synonym/synonym.sock missing"
cannot start sm client.....
tried my level best to fix the problem but didnot work..
what should i do???? kindly provide some solutions........
thank you

Is there a first bracket missing in your 2nd line? Also note quotes. Try this

ummmm the bracket is missing only here...in the sendmail.mc file it s all right,.....but still it is generating the pre stated errors....

so what can i do next?? help me out plz>>>

hello!!!
i did up to service synonym restart as stated in the README file...
actually now it is generating errors "cannot generate or build synonym.conf file when i tried to start the synonym by doing "service synonym start". actually the synonym.conf file was commented out by using <--! in the beginning and --> ih the end..n i remove them for uncommenting .... but it still generated the error cannot build or generate the synonym.conf file.....
actually also it is not creating synonym.sock file in /var/run/synonym directory when i installed synonym using the rpm package. .as the make and make install command was generating errors relating to the synonym.c file....
and the synonym binary is also in the directory /usr/local/sbin instead of /usr/local/bin as stated in the README file.....
m really having problem to start the synonym .......
plzzz suggest on this................

I just downloaded the rpm in RHEL4 and installed without a hitch. What distro you are using?

now i have successfully installed the synonym package in my red hat enterprise..for that i also downloaded the sendmail development package and installed it as well.and synonym created all the files as stated in the README file...and i also did modifiy the /etc/synonym.conf file according to our need exactly in this manner
<Rules>
<Rule>
<Condition>
<Header>From</Header>
<Match>*.@sytem.info.com.np</Match>
</Condition>
<Action>
<ActionType>Copy</ActionType>
<Address>niks@system.info.com.np</Address>
</Action>
</Rule>
</Rules>


so this should copy all the mails sents from @system.info.com.np to address niks@system.info.com.np if m not wrong...but the synonym is not copying it...
i wonder why..
have done both service synonym restart and service sendmail restart...but it;s still not copying......
anything more i need to do or modify ????
please give some ideas and suggestions to make it work......
thanks!!!!

today it worked!!!
synonym does work...
thanks a lot !!!!
u helped me solved my problem..
thanks

Glad it worked.
It took me days to find out this solution. You will even find a post of mine here regarding this.