Rick wrote: > I guess I'm at a loss to exactly what you are trying to accomplish. Are you > wanting to setup an email system that would allow only teachers to send mail > to the students sub-mailbox folders? Possibly have only parents and > students send mail to teachers sub-mailbox folders? Have the students i/o > mail sent back to the teachers sub-mailbox folders? Maybe I'm seeing the > trees and not the forest.
I hoped to avoid filling people's email boxes with the features of our product, but... Basically, we have 4 account types: School Administrators (principals, staff, asst principals, ...), Teachers, Parents, and Students To be compliant with the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA), we have to ensure that porn, spam, unsolicited email in general does not get into any of our account mailboxes. So, we wrote a front-end that allows each user to specify which email addresses they can receive email from. Student A only receives email from his/her parents, teachers, and the school staff. If the student needs to email someone at NASA, for example. They put in a request to allow a new email contact ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) which is approved by either a parent, teacher, or school staff member. When this approval goes through, the rules are updated. Keep in mind, a blanket F!~domain.com rule would not be sufficient for outside emails (like nasa.gov) and parent emails at work, for example. Granted, email headers could be forged, but the forger would have to know what the valid incoming email addresses for an account were. This is similar to the method hotmail.com uses in their "maximum junk mail filtering" mode. On a different feature, our teachers would like the ability to separate emails from students in different classes into different folders. So, they would tell their students that his/her email address was [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] The teacher could keep their messages straight, even if they had 150 students to deal with and the email originated from one of the child's parents. Unfortunately, since we lack a !PASS! filter on the incoming rules, it seems we will either have to limit the number of approved contacts an account can have (okay for smaller schools) OR we lose the submailbox feature (not okay for larger schools > 1,000 students). Hope this clears things up. BTW, we scrapped outgoing filtering. It would have been nice to prevent kids from sending email to unapproved contacts, but we only have a single orules.ima file for the entire domain. This means every time one of the 20,000 accounts changes a contact in their contacts list, the file gets locked for writing. Bleah. Not to mention one ENORMOUS orules file. ***Another Feature Request*** orules.ima for every single user account!! Thanks, Norm To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
