[ale] sendmail question

[Gary Maltzen]

Their sendmail server should be creating log entries (/var/log/maillog)
showing where each piece of mail is delivered.

Your sendmail server should be creating log entries showing each piece of
received e-mail.

Intra-office mail would only be delivered to your server if (1) your
sendmail server is the primary MX record for their domain and (2) they have
*misconfigured* their sendmail server to deliver *everything* to your
server...

Of course, if they have POP accounts on your server....


> I have a customer who has has a Linux e-mail server (sendmail) inside
their
> firewall and  connects through ISDN to us for internet access.  They have
a
> concern about confidential documents that they e-mail within the office.
>
> In the system described above, I can't see how the e-mail could loop
through
> us during it's travel - or be intercepted by "outsiders".  Am I wrong?  Is
> there any way of documenting that a piece of internal e-mail has never
> passed out side of their firewall?


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