[nflug] mail script

Cyber Source peter at thecybersource.com
Mon Jul 10 13:31:00 EDT 2006


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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