How To Automatically Add A Disclaimer To Outgoing Emails With alterMIME (Postfix

Written By
FT
Falko Timme
Sep 22, 2010

[ Thanks to Falko
Timme
for this link. ]

“This tutorial shows how to install and use alterMIME. alterMIME
is a tool that can automatically add a disclaimer to emails. In
this article I will explain how to install it as a Postfix filter
on Debian Lenny.

“I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you!

“1 Preliminary Note

“I’m assuming that Postfix is already installed and fully
functional – I will not explain how to set up Postfix and configure
email accounts in this tutorial.

“2 Installing alterMIME

“alterMIME can be installed as follows:

“aptitude install altermime

“Next we create the user filter with the home directory
/var/spool/filter filter – alterMIME will be run as that user:”


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