J. Roeleveld put forth on 3/4/2010 2:12 AM:
> On Thursday 04 March 2010 08:57:30 Jonathan Tripathy wrote:
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> Thanks for all the tips.
>>
>> Postfix and Dovecot are indeed on the same box and I do agree with you that
>> it would require one heck of a hack to get this to work.
>
> See below, it might be a "simple" configuration still?
>
>> Since this is software, it is possible, just maybe not with the current
>> implementation of the 2 bits of software. It would be nice if postfix had
>> some sort of setting to allow an external program to take a copy of the
>> email being sent. Then, dovecot (again probably a hacked version) could
>> store the email in the sent items folder.
>>
>> As for the BCC idea, this could work, but only if postfix was able to
>> prefix the subject with something like "[sent]", or even better add a
>> header, then dovecot can filter to the correct folder. Is this possible?
>
> Can't you filter this on the "from" field?
> Eg:
> If <from> = <my email> then
> {
> store in sent items
> } else {
> store in inbox / parse other rules...
> }
>
> With that, I thought there is an option in postfix to bcc a single address on
> all emails?
> You could then put a filter like the following on all emails coming into that
> address:
>
> if <from> in <list of local emails> then
> {
> store in correct Sent Items
> } else {
> discard email as we don't want to duplicate incoming email
> }
Would sender_bcc_maps work if he uses Dovecot LDA/sieve? He could create a
sieve filter based on MAIL FROM: being his own address, and have sieve move
all such mails into his Sent Items folder. Might be worth a shot?
--
Stan
