Topic: qmail aliases

[Max Barry]

my company has an qmail alias or a SME "group" called "x" that everyone in the company is a member of. This is around so that internally people can send messages to the entire company easily.  I would like to make this alias internal only meaning that it is not possible for people to send mail to it from outside the company.

Is this possible?  I have read the life with qmail and a couple of other docs and not seen anything about this either way.  Please help.

-Max

[Rob Hillis]

Max Barry wrote:

> my company has an qmail alias or a SME "group" called "x"
> that everyone in the company is a member of. This is around
> so that internally people can send messages to the entire
> company easily.  I would like to make this alias internal
> only meaning that it is not possible for people to send mail
> to it from outside the company.
> Is this possible?  I have read the life with qmail and a
> couple of other docs and not seen anything about this either
> way.  Please help.

I think you'll find the address "everyone" that's preinstalled will fulfil this need.

[Max Barry]

I have no trouble sending mail to everyone@mycompany.com from outside and having everyone receive it.

-Max

[steve macgregor]

Now that is cool! I never knew you could do that!

steve

[Michael Doerner]

Hi,

try /sbin/e-smith/db accounts setprop x Visible internal

Regards,
Michael Doerner

[Max Barry]

I tried that fix and it did not seem to block outside access to that address.
Do I need to reboot? or do anything to bring that change into effect?

-Max

[Max Barry]

I did an /sbin/e-smith/signal-event console-save
and that appeared to put it into effect

[Les Mikesell]

Is there any way to make groups that include other email groups?   I've done this extensively with sendmail aliases in an office that I'm considering switching to e-smith but I'd hate to have to manually track changes in the superset groups.  Similarly, can you add non-local users to groups for email delivery?

[Les Mikesell]

Is there any way to make groups that include other email groups?   I've done this extensively with sendmail aliases in an office that I'm considering switching to e-smith but I'd hate to have to manually track changes in the superset groups.  Similarly, can you add non-local users to groups for email delivery?

[Les Mikesell]

Is there any way to make groups that include other email groups?   I've done this extensively with sendmail aliases in an office that I'm considering switching to e-smith but I'd hate to have to manually track changes in the superset groups.  Similarly, can you add non-local users to groups for email delivery?