Or, alternatively, by disabling DNS services for the machine that holds Ipswitch and setting up HOSTS file with approved addresses on that machine. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Kingsley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 10:45 AM Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Blocking mail to and from some domains > A client wants to stop imail users from sending or recieving mails to and > from any domains except from certain approved ones). > > We can stop incoming emails from unwanted sources by setting a global rules > which uses the FROM field. This does not work for outgoing mail > > Can you stop outward mail in the same way. Thru webmail, despire having the > rules set (where to box contaAAAA"domain.com move mail to nul box) > > What I mean is that they want to stop anybody using the mail server from > sending mail to any domains except ones that they approve of. > > Thanks > > Richard > > > <<<< > Is this a separate IMail server, just for this one domain? If it is, the one > could remove the DNS IP address in the SMTP settings and place the IP and > domainname of the external domain in the HOSTS file. Since IMail cannot > resolve the other domains to IPs (no DNS access), it cannot 'send' email > except to internal domains and the one in the HOSTS file. I've not actually > tried this, but it 'should' work. > > I'm not sure what you are saying in the second paragraph. You say 'internal' > and then 'external'? There is no 'internal' email from external domains. > > Daniel Donnelly > >>>> > > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > to be removed from this list. > > An Archive of this list is available at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
