Managers,
My original question regarded the placement of a disclaimer signature on all
outgoing
e-mail. My question in full is placed at the end of this msg.
Thanks to the responses from:
Gary Optland
Nikola Milutinovic
Jeremy A. Mates
system administration account [sysadmin_at_astro.su.se]
Paul A. Sand
Frank Wortner
Bac (Ashok)
Several respondents indicated that they also require a solution here, with
some explaining the difficulties they have come across to date.
Some pointed to
http://www.sendmail.org/faq/
which I had already checked prior to sending the request, however, the best
I could get from this was:
"This is quite complicated. At first sight it might be simple: just "cat"
some text (taken from a file or whatever) to the end of an e-mail message
passing through sendmail. However, there is a big problem: what about
structured e-mail messages, i.e., MIME messages? These can be arbitrarily
complex and just "cat"ting a footer to the end of the body will break the
MIME structure. Hence, there is no easy solution to this problem!
If you know enough about MIME and some C programming, then take a look at
sendmail 8.11 and libmilter/README. It now offers the functionality to
achieve this goal. However, it is unsupported by sendmail.org! Please don't
ask us questions about libmilter. (However, we will fix bugs!) "
Which is really not what I wanted to read (I wanted it on a silver platter!)
This answer from sysadmin_at_astro.su.se:
You could wrap sendmail in a script that preprocesses outbound messages.
You have to exert some care in doing this, in order to avoid corrupting
attachments. There is a set of perl modules out there that can deal with
MIME messages in a proper way; or, if that's too slow, Pine's c-client
library might be of interest. The easiest solution would be to add an
X-Disclaimer: header, but I'm not sure your lawyers will find it sufficient.
(Many mail readers will hide it.)
Unfortunately, we are a bit thin on the ground in the programming department
at the moment, so are looking at contracting the job out to a previous
employee.
I will re-summarise when/if the solution comes through.
Original question:
This is slightly off topic, but I figure someone out there must have already
crossed this path.
I have been given a request to attach a disclaimer signature to all out
going mail (as a defence against legal action for defamation etc).We have
approx 17,000 clients.
We are using tru64 vers 4.0d-4.0f with sendmail vers 8.9.2 on the server
end, with the majority of our clients using eudora, with a few on Microsoft
Outlook and pine. I have found a similar posting in the archives, but it
only really deals with pine.
Any help or constructive suggestions would be appreciated and will be
summarised.
Regards, John
John Gormley
Senior Unix Systems Administrator
Southern Cross University
Lismore NSW
Australia
jgormley_at_scu.edu.au
Received on Tue Mar 06 2001 - 23:41:25 NZDT