RE: [Nolug] Sendmail Rules

From: Pietu <pietu_at_weblizards.net>
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 16:27:06 -0500
Message-ID: <000801c46920$25c69de0$5e50a8c0@avatarlab>

In this case, I see the following scenario.

E-mail arriving from "bob@aol.com" gets automatically rerouted to HR
Director, who would manually forward (or not) the e-mail to the HR alias,
which would then re-distribute the mail to all addresses in the text file.

P

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nolug@joeykelly.net
> [mailto:owner-nolug@joeykelly.net] On Behalf Of Wimprine, Thomas
> Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 4:11 PM
> To: 'nolug@joeykelly.net'
> Subject: RE: [Nolug] Sendmail Rules
>
>
> HR Director/VP (executive person)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nolug@joeykelly.net
> [mailto:owner-nolug@joeykelly.net] On Behalf
> Of Pietu
> Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 4:05 PM
> To: nolug@joeykelly.net
> Subject: RE: [Nolug] Sendmail Rules
>
> BTW: Who's approving the mail? A person or spamfilter or
> another script?
>
> P
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-nolug@joeykelly.net
> > [mailto:owner-nolug@joeykelly.net] On Behalf Of Wimprine, Thomas
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 3:47 PM
> > To: 'nolug@joeykelly.net'
> > Subject: RE: [Nolug] Sendmail Rules
> >
> >
> > We need mail from bob@aol.com to be viewed by the HR department, and
> > forwarded if "approved". So unfortunately this rules out just
> > adding the
> > BCC.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-nolug@joeykelly.net
> > [mailto:owner-nolug@joeykelly.net] On Behalf
> > Of -ray
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 3:31 PM
> > To: 'Nolug'
> > Subject: Re: [Nolug] Sendmail Rules
> >
> > On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Wimprine, Thomas wrote:
> >
> > > I have a need to do some sendmail rules for my HR
> > department. (I don't
> > like
> > > it it's my job.) If bob@aol.com <mailto:bob@aol.com>
> > sends an email I
> > need
> > > the recipients replaced with HR@localdomain.com
> > <mailto:HR@localdomain.com>
> > > . Does anyone have a clue how to accomplish this? I have
> > the bat book open
> > > but it looks like Greek right now, it just doesn't make sense.
> >
> > You need the *recipient* addresses replaced? That would be
> > complicated in
> > sendmail and probably easier to do with the MUA. (send to
> > hr@localdomain.com and bcc everyone else).
> >
> > If you want all mail *from* bob@aol.com to appear to come from
> > hr@localdomain.com, that's more common and can be accomplished with
> > sendmail generics rewriting (ie bob works for HR). Not sure
> > off the top
> > of my head, but look for the FEATURE(`genericstable'). The
> > /etc/mail/genericstable would look like:
> >
> > bob@aol.com hr@localdomain.com
> >
> > You may also have to put aol.com in the GENERICS_DOMAIN macro.
> >
> > ray
> > --
> >
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> > Ray DeJean
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> Systems Engineer Southeastern Louisiana University
> IBM Certified Specialist AIX Administration, AIX Support
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