Automatic BCC of all email (incoming, outgoing)

[MarcieZoob]

We have a client who would like to receive blind carbon copies of ALL email being sent to his two employees. He would also like to automatically be BCC'd on everything outgoing from his two employees (he wants copies of everything they are sending).

I posed this question to our web host but they said we cannot set this up in our email control panel. Is it possible to set something like this up in the .htaccess file?

[Deep13]

if you are using cpanel as hosting panel then you can use filters and specify the rule there...

or infact in your web based mail software also there should be some option...

what mail software do you use?

Deep

[MarcieZoob]

Our client is using Outlook for email. The employees are off site in two locations so our client wants to be automatically BCC'd on ALL email outgoing.

(We have the incoming email BCC worked out and set up - it's just the outgoing email that I'm not familiar with.)

[Deep13]

I have cpanel on my server and it has option to set the filters...

You can do it by adding some rules in sendmail config (I am really not very sure about it) but it can be only done from the host part..not from your side...

I found some information about this here..

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Netw..._20372156.html

I do not see any other way of doing it, htaccess files are just to create rules for apache..wont work with the mail server...

Regards
Deep

[ADAM Web Design]

Hi Marcie,

Although I'm unfamiliar with CPanel, I don't think this would be possible through CP directly due to the fact that many ISPs (e.g. most DSL and dialup ISPs in Canada---bite me Bell!) don't allow mail relaying through their SMTP servers. For those who don't know what I mean by this, this means that a customer of an ISP that doesn't allow mail relaying can only send mail through their ISP's outgoing email server. They can still use an independent .com/.ca/.whatever domain name...the traffic just goes through the ISP's mail server.

Having said that, there is an option within Outlook itself. I'm not sure if there's a BCC option as well, either in 2000 or XP. But this will work and work well:

Go into the Rules Wizard and set up a rule whereby all email sent from (domain) would be CCed (or BCCed, if possible) to the client.

It's a bastard of a way to do it, but it does work. I've had a client set up this way for over three years now with the CC option, and none of his customers noticed...or if they did notice, seemed to care.

[MarcieZoob]

Thanks for the Outlook tip, Adam. I knew there had to be a way in Outlook and I forgot about rules (and I have so many...sheesh!). Since we use shared-hosting, we can't customize the outgoing email so we'll give the Outlook rule a try.

Thanks again!