>Management is getting concerned with the amount of non-company email going
>through our production area. They want to prohibit production people from
>sending mail to anyone outside the company. Not to get into the politics of
>it, but in my opinion, this should be solved through management not
>technology. Executives, IT, management, etc will still need to be able to
>send email.
>
>Can anyone think of a way to do this with SIMS? The preferable method would
>be one mail server. I'm pretty sure we could do this with two mail servers,
>but still need some suggestions. Or...would there be a better product for
>what we want to do?
I would do this with IPNetRouter ($80 from Sustain Softworks
www.sustworks.com). You can set it to port map port 25 (SMTP) to anything
(or even just block it entirely). If you set the production people up on
their own subnet or IP range, IPNetRouter can just block all the SMTP
traffic from their subnet, and allow all others to get thru. You should
be able to run IPNetRouter on the same machine as SIMS, but if you don't
want to do that, it runs nicely on very low end machines (I have it
running on a IIsi and it keeps up with all my traffic without a hitch)
>I'm aware that users could start using web-based email or even find an open
>SMTP relay, but that's not my concern.
Don't you love when management makes boneheaded decisions. Have you
already started the betting pool of when this "directive" will be
repealed (figure after about 10 or 15 times that a production person
needs to reply to important business related email... the bosses will
probably tell you to give them access back)
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
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