Automatically BCCing messages to another recipient

This page discusses a method of BCCing every message going through Xeams to a different recipient. This method is useful if you're using a third-party journaling or email archiving service that needs a copy of the message.

Prerequisites

• You must be using the Enterprise Edition of Xeams with at least 20 users.
• You must use Xeams build 6431 or higher.

Steps to Enable

Since this is not a very common feature, this setting cannot be done using the web interface. Instead, add a file called BccRecipients.xml in the $INSTALL_DIR\config folder. A sample XML file is displayed below with comments on how to set it up.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<BccRules>
  <!-- There can be multiple BccRecipients nodes -->
  <BccRecipients>
    <!-- Represents the email address where BCC messages are sent. -->
    <Recipient>bcc.recipient@example.com</Recipient>
    <!-- Conditions have two attributes: field and value. Possible values for fields are:
      sender - containing either a full email address or a domain.
      recipient - containing either a full email address or a domain.
      senderIP - containing either a full IP address or a CIDR notation
      -->   
    <Conditions>
      <!--Multiple conditions are ORed together. For example, the following means that the 
      BCC recipient will be added if the sender IP is either 192.168.4.10 or 192.168.4.5. -->
      <Condition field="senderIP" value="192.168.4.10" />
      <Condition field="senderIP" value="192.168.4.5" />
    </Conditions>
  </BccRecipients>
  <BccRecipients>
    <Recipient>bcc1.recipient@example.com</Recipient>
    <Conditions>       
        <Condition field="sender" value="sales@myorg.com" />
    </Conditions>
  </BccRecipients>
  <BccRecipients>
    <Recipient>bcc2.recipient@example.com</Recipient>
    <Conditions>
      <Condition field="recipient" value="support@myorg.com" />
    </Conditions>
  </BccRecipients>
  <BccRecipients>
    <Recipient>bcc3.recipient@example.com</Recipient>
    <Conditions>
      <Condition field="senderIP" value="10.0.0.0/24" />
    </Conditions>
  </BccRecipients>
  <!-- No conditions mean it will always pass, and a BCC will be added to every message. -->
  <BccRecipients>
    <Recipient>alwayson@example.com</Recipient>    
  </BccRecipients>
</BccRules>