> Not OT at all. I saw one person suggested procmail which will do the job. > I prefer doing it a different way. Use the access databse in sendmail. > Assuming your kid's name is elmo, and you wanted him to be allowed email > from three different addresses, > > To: elmo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx REJECT > From: kid1@xxxxxx OK > From: kid2@xxxxxx OK > From: kid3@xxxxxx OK > > The advantage is that the mail will be rejected by sendmail before > reception completes. The disadvantage is that you need to do a bit more > reading to fully understand it. ;-) Hm, trying to do this but when I try to send a message to elmo it says the mailbox is disabled, even though I'm sending from an address that is marked OK, just like your example. I made the changes using webmin. I looked at /etc/mail/access and it looks just like your example. Any thoughts? I'll keep trying. Also, looks like I can use this to restrict outgoing too? I'd like to do that as well. Obvious I only want to restrict the kids and not myself. Thanks, James
