On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 19:47 -0400, James Pifer wrote: > > 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. ummm...if you're using postfix for your mail, you'll need to do it in the /etc/postfix directory instead of /etc/mail -- cleverly disguised as a responsible adult.
