On 5/8/2008 5:22 AM, Bob Gustafson wrote:
I always keep a copy of messages sent.
With a particularly large message (pictures etc), being sent from a far remote location, I noticed that the message and the copy were both sent from the client - rather than having the message sent (through my mail server) and then copied locally within the mail server.
Is there a way to configure Dovecot (or postfix?) so the local copy is done?
This has been asked more than once here and elsewhere, and sadly the short answer is 'no'... I'd love to see support for this too, but it just has to do with how smtp works.
A couple of options...
If you use postfix for your MTA, you could simply disable saving sent messages in tbird, and set up sender BCC maps in postfix so that a copy of each users sent mail is dumped into their Sent folder.
I've never felt adventurous enough to set this up, so if you give it a try I'd be interested in hearing follow-ups...
Also, if you have webmail access as an option, you could use it whenever you are sending a large message - then the attachment only has to be uploaded once.
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Best regards,
Charles