[Dovecot] public/private email accounts
Hi,
I am running FC4 with postfix/dovecot/amavisd-new etc on my box with 50 staff email accounts (say 10 per 5 departments)... everything is working ok...
I want to create 5 more accounts for each department (to be redirected to respective staffs, e.g. sales@xyz.com) as well one for everyone... that can be easily done by creating an account and modifying the .forward file in the /home/<user> folder.
My great concern is that if by a virus attachment or spam is not detected and sent to everyone@xyz.com, it will be replicated to 50 email addresses... what I want is to have the 6 accounts mentionned above to be used only by the personnel and not the outside world... is there a way of doing this?
Thank you.
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On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 02:04 -0700, Ashvin Meetoo wrote:
Yes. However thats a mail delivery issue and will need reconfiguration of your MTA (postfix in this case). I suggest you ask on a list appropriate for that.
[BTW Don't get hooked up on having a real account complete with home directory and forward file. The traditional way of doing this is to use aliases, and in exim (mentioned because its the MTA I work with) you would have a set of group aliases in a router with a condition on it to ensure only legitimate users could send to it).]
An alternative method would be to use a full scale MLM (Mailing List Manager) such as Mailman ( http://www.list.org/ ) but this is almost certainly serious overkill for your environment.
Nigel.-- [ Nigel Metheringham Nigel.Metheringham@InTechnology.co.uk ] [ - Comments in this message are my own and not ITO opinion/policy - ]
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