01-Oct-02 at 11:19, Jayson Henkel (jhenkelsterlingcrane.ca) wrote :
> Good day all,
>
> I have used postfix as a general MTA before, at other places. However we are
> now embarking on creating a corporate mail server. I will likely use
> Postfix, but my boss has got some very unorthodox requirements. I'm
> wondering if some of these things are even possible, if possible can I do it
> with only 1 server? Please advise on the following.
>
>
> 1.) We require the mail server to allow certain users to mail ONLY a small
> group of authorized external mail servers. While other users can mail ONLY a
> different small group of authorized external mail servers. Others need full
> access to any external server. I envision some sort of grouping to
> facilitate this. As well it has to function within our 11 site WAN providing
> normal 'internal' mail.
>

Possible. Mildly tricky.

> 2.) We require the mail server to bcc all 'general' employee's inbound and
> outbound mail to a certain account ie generaldomain.com . While all the
> upper management has all their mail bcc'd to securedomain.com . These lists
> have to remain exclusive to each other, ie not have the generaldomain.com
> receiving the VP's mail etc etc.
>

Possible. Very easy.

> 3.) All mail incoming needs to be automatically printed by a laser printer
> ( I am uncertain how to handle attachments, perhaps they won't get printed
> just the message) I envision delivering it to a script to do the printing.

What a waste of paper! But possible with scripting. Filter out spam
properly first!

>
> 4.) Lastly its required that the general and secure accounts be backed up
> everymonth to tape. I don't think this will be a problem but getting the
> exact beginning and end of month might be tricky.

Not as hard as you make it sound.

>
>
> As I said alot of this stuff is unorthodox but I suspect its all possible
> with a little ingenuity. If postfix isn't the answer is there a comporable
> MTA to do the job?

Postfix is the answer. Other MTAs will do less and cost you more.

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