The best way to handle this is to create a new domain on your server with a non resolvable domain name like example.local then create all of your lists under this domain name. then you could open the list so anyone could send to the list. What this will do is make the lists available to all hosts that can relay through your server, Authed users.
We use this technique. The only issue we have with it is if there is a user on the list without a local account then they will not be able ot reply to the list. Kevin Bilbee > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Alan Walters > Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004 6:49 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [IMail Forum] Stopping REMOTE users from accessing LOCAL Lists > > > Hi Eric, > > Thanks for the reply, but if I understand correctly what that > would do, then > only subscribers could send email to that list? > > IOW, if I wasn't a member of a given list I couldn't send email > to it? I'm > not sure that would work for us. We have several distribution lists here, > roughly one per department. If somebody in the A/R dept. wants to send an > email to everybody in the A/P dept. they can use the A/R dept. list. They > probably wouldn't be a subscriber to a list from a different dept. > > What is the point of AUTH'ing and the log message "Authenticated > [EMAIL PROTECTED], session treated as local."? If the sessions were > truly treated as local then I'd think that would solve the problem. > Instead, despite the log message to the contrary, the user sessions are > treated as remote. > > Alan Walters > Director of I.T. > Royce Medical > > P.S. > Sorry for the long delay in getting back, this has been a week > from hell... > > > > From: "E. Shanbrom \(Ipswitch\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Stopping REMOTE users from accessing > > LOCAL Lists > > Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 17:40:52 -0500 > > Reply-To: [email protected] > > Have you thought of setting the lists to subscribers only? > > > > Eric S > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Alan Walters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED] Ipswitch. Com" <[email protected]> > > Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 2:24 PM > > Subject: [IMail Forum] Stopping REMOTE users from accessing LOCAL Lists > > > > > We've recently had a surge in SPAM targeting our global > All-Users List. > We > > > still need internal users to be able to access any Distribution List, > while > > > denying external senders. Thinking that's what the "Allow Remote Mail > to > > > Local Groups" checkbox was for, I unchecked it (and restarted the SMTP > > > service). Suddenly, internal users couldn't access any of the Lists. > > > > > > All internal users AUTH so I assumed they would be considered > LOCAL (and > > > allowed), while external senders would be considered REMOTE (and > denied). > > > The Log even shows "Authenticated [EMAIL PROTECTED], > session treated > as > > > local." for every internal user who attempts to send: > > > > > > 12:16 09:15 SMTPD(00050394) [192.168.100.6] connect > 192.168.101.112 port > 1148 > > > 12:16 09:15 SMTPD(00050394) [192.168.101.112] EHLO roycemedical.com > > > 12:16 09:15 SMTPD(00000554) Authenticated > [EMAIL PROTECTED], session treated as local. > > > 12:16 09:15 SMTPD(00050394) [192.168.101.112] MAIL > FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > 12:16 09:15 SMTPD(00050394) [192.168.101.112] RCPT > TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > 12:16 09:15 SMTPD(00050394) denied remote access to > C:\IMAIL\Groups\Daily-Sales.txt (roycemedical.com) > > > 12:16 09:15 SMTPD(00050394) [192.168.101.112] ERR roycemedical.com > invalid user <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > Is there a way to allow local users access to Distribution Lists, but > deny > > > them to non-local senders? > > > > 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/ > 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/
