[nflug] mail script

[Sam Stern]

Hi Eric,

It's a little unclear to me what mail system you are running. It sounds like
sendmail using mboxs? For a quick solution to this problem, I would
recommend making a system alias, rather than mail box to get all the mail.
As an example here is a naive little set of aliases for you:

mail> vi /etc/mail/aliases

finance: joe, helen,anne
it: erin, kim, alex
sales: keith, eric
memo: finance, it, sales

mail> newalias



this method will "reflect" through the aliases and get everyone their own
copy of the memo. I should note that this solution (like your current
solution) is not scalable and tends to start to become QUITE a hassle after
30 or so users get added. These two solutions will quickly enter into the
"nightmare" category around 100 users.

What distribution are you using? I would recommend that install the mailing
list manager that is part of your distribution (usually Mailman or
Majordomo) and move the whole memo thing to a moderated mailing list. Then,
with you as the moderator, you can mange users and document retention more
effectively and more predictably.


Good luck!

Sam Stern
Grand Island, New York, USA


> -----Original Message-----
> From: nflug-bounces at nflug.org 
> [mailto:nflug-bounces at nflug.org] On Behalf Of eric
> Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 01:48 PM
> To: nflug at nflug.org
> Subject: Re: [nflug] mail script
> 
> Cyber, if I created a user that only I have access to0, that gets all
> the mail (just like the 'everyone' account) how would that stop the
> 'everyone' account from deleting the email?
> 
> The problem happens when I set permissions for read only on the
> 'everyone' Inbox ...the mail system moves the 'everyone' mail file to
> BOGUS.everyone mail file and then puts a fresh everyone mail file in
> it's place with permissions it can append too.  If there was only one
> memo a day this would be ok, but more than one memo a day comes out
> which doesn't give the many to one users a chance to read a 
> memo before
> it's replaced by a new 'everyone' mail file.  whew!
> 
> Cyber Source wrote:
> 
> > eric wrote:
> >
> >> Here's one for giggles...
> >>
> >> I have an internal linux/sendmail/ mail server that is internally
> >> serving email to it's self there's prolly 50 users mailing each
> >> other. I created a redirect for mass mailing morning memo's.  For
> >> simplicity of
> >> guests visiting us for 2 months I created an email account for the
> >> redirect.
> >>
> >> So here is what happens:
> >>
> >> mail user: 'sally' sends a memo email to redirect 
> 'everyone' which is
> >> now an email account which our 2 month visiting guests login as
> >> 'everyone' to read. ...cool works great!
> >> So here's the problem:
> >>
> >> user 'everyone' can delete their email -not good :( - and I cannot
> >> (of course) set permissions on the actual mail/user because
> >> the mail system will move the 'everyone' mail to 
> BOGUS.everyone and then
> >> create a fresh blank 'everyone' that the mail system can write too
> >>
> >> Any ideas or solutions? ...eventually I will be using an 
> electronic Bill
> >> Board but for now I need a quick hack.
> >>
> >> Thank you very much
> >> -Eric
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> >>   
> >
> > Create a user that gets all the mails and only you have access too?
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