[Dovecot] Dovecot/postfix to do 'copy to sent' ?

[Uldis Pakuls]

mouss wrote:
> Zbigniew Szalbot wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> Charles Marcus pisze:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> But it won't be saved in the Sent folder, will it? It will just be 
>> delivered to the mailbox?
>>
>>
> you can have it delivered wherever you want, provided you configure that.
>
> with a pcre sender bcc like this:
> /(.*)@example\.com$/      $1 at senderbcc.example.com
>
> postfix will deliver a copy to user at sendrbcc.example.com. Then deliver 
> this with
>
> 1- dovecot LDA and use Sieve to store the message in the folder you want
> 2- maildrop and configure it to store the message where you like, or
> 3- directly with postfix, provided you configure the right 
> virtual_mailbox_maps
or.. just add custom header line like "X-Save-Sent: 1" and use dovecot's
LDA + sieve script to store message in "sent" folder.
Personally I don't like fake "senderbcc" address for every user. This my
catch a lots of spam in "sent" folders.