[SunHELP] limit a users emailing via sendmail?

Edward Chase echase at studentweb.providence.edu
Fri Aug 23 11:06:18 CDT 2002


If given a user, "x".  I've been asked if we can limit them to sending 
email to only users "a", "b", and "c".

Just to make it a bit more difficult, we're talking using a POP3 client.

I haven't dug into sendmail.cf, it's scary in there...



At 11:45 AM 8/23/2002 -0400, timuel-sunlist wrote:
>What kind of limitations would you like to impose? Have you really looked at
>/etc/mail/sendmail.cf? There`s alot of configuration options in there that I
>personally use to *help* avoid formmail-type exploits on webhosting machines
>such as "O MaxRecipientsPerMessage=3" "O PostmasterCopy 
>whatewver at whatever.com"
>etc etc etc. There`s LOTS more too...
>
>Good luck!
>
>--
>timuel
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Edward Chase" <echase at postoffice.providence.edu>
>To: <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
>Sent: Friday, August 23, 2002 10:03 AM
>Subject: [SunHELP] limit a users emailing via sendmail?
>
>
>| Is it possible to create a user in Solaris 8 and limit who they are allowed
>| to send mail to?
>|
>| Solaris 8
>| sendmail 8.11.6
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