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Title: Email Server
Post by: Bob Todd on July 07, 2003, 04:04:22 PM

Theres probably a really simple answer to this question but I cant think of it.

I run a school network and need to offer staff and pupils e-mail addresses. Currently I only have staff on the system and  its working great. Now comes the problem - adding the pupils. If I simply add all the pupils in the same way as the staff they'll be able to see staff e-mail addresses from the directory service in webmail. I dont want some smart kid signing up staff to porn subscription services so ideally I want to stop them from seeing the staff mail addresses.

Anyone got any ideas of the best solution using SME ? Ideally I'd like to store their mail on an entirely different server. Wondered if I could implemement a system where staff would have e-mail addresses name@domain and pupils would be name@pupils.domain.

Any advice appreciated.

Title: Re: Email Server
Post by: Ed on July 08, 2003, 04:32:33 AM

I don't have an expert's understanding (or hardly an amateur's for that matter) but I wonder if he could assign the kids a different subdomain (e.g. brats.school.edu) and have the mailserver handle it like a different domain? I dunno... something like that, anyway....

Ed  (WTFDIK? I can't even get the dang 5.6 to load).

Title: Re: Email Server
Post by: Sejanus on July 08, 2003, 02:34:38 PM

HI Bob..

Im also a teacher/admin of a school just starting out with sme. If you dont mind, can you email me so we can exchange ideas etc.?

Thanks

Title: Re: Email Server
Post by: Michael P. Soulier on July 10, 2003, 08:08:22 AM

Bob Todd wrote:
>
> I run a school network and need to offer staff and pupils
> e-mail addresses. Currently I only have staff on the system
> and  its working great. Now comes the problem - adding the
> pupils. If I simply add all the pupils in the same way as the
> staff they'll be able to see staff e-mail addresses from the
> directory service in webmail. I dont want some smart kid
> signing up staff to porn subscription services so ideally I
> want to stop them from seeing the staff mail addresses.

If the kid is really smart, they'll figure it out anyway. Security by obscurity is no security. I wouldn't bother. Besides, any services that support subscription with no confirmation are in desperate need of a rewrite.

Mike