[nflug] mail script

[eric]

This sounds encouraging, I will try this. 
The system is a RedHat 7.2 with an upgraded 8.something sendmail that
only delivers locally, I am using an old version of Horde/Imp (PHP based
webmail) that has unfortunately worked very well for too long of a time
without any alterations.

Sam Stern wrote:

>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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