I know this is considered a no-no, but please hear me out...
I'm on a development team that supports Human Resources.
All of our employee data is stored in PeopleSoft HR running on Unix.
PeopleSoft generates email to managers and/or employees when various HR
events occur. Example: A manager enters a salary increase for an
employee. The system then sends a message to the next-level manager saying
there is a salary increase in the system that needs his/her approval.
We do not have a 'test' email system at our company, so if we test
PeopleSoft email in our development environment, messages would be sent to
real people in our production email system. To prevent this from
happening, we deleted all of the email addresses from our PeopleSoft
development database. But that leaves us not being able to test
PeopleSoft's email/workflow functionality.
So...in our **Devlopment Environment Only** we'd like to trap and modify
outgoing messages as follows:
--Change the TO address to a mail-in database we've set up.
--Append the original recipient's address to the BODY text so we can verify
the message was going to the right person before we rerouted it.
FYI - Our development PeopleSoft HR is the only application running on the
Unix box, so any mail changes we implement would not affect any other
applications, or production.
You may wonder why we don't do this within PeopleSoft...and the answer is
-- because email can be generated in several different ways (workflow,
customized functions, etc.)--we have not been able to find a way to catch
and change ALL email coming out of the system.
Because of the sensitivity of the data, we must make sure catch every
message.
While this may not necessarily be an Exim question, your group is the most
informative I've found after several days of searching. If no one has
suggestions for how to solve our problem, perhaps you could direct me to a
really good Unix group.
