[Dovecot] public/private email accounts

[Nigel Metheringham]

On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 02:04 -0700, Ashvin Meetoo wrote:
> My great concern is that if by a virus attachment or spam is not detected
> and sent to everyone at xyz.com, it will be replicated to 50 email
> addresses... what I want is to have the 6 accounts mentionned above to be
> used only by the personnel and not the outside world... is there a way of
> doing this?

Yes.
However thats a mail delivery issue and will need reconfiguration of
your MTA (postfix in this case).  I suggest you ask on a list
appropriate for that.

[BTW Don't get hooked up on having a real account complete with home
directory and forward file.  The traditional way of doing this is to use
aliases, and in exim (mentioned because its the MTA I work with) you
would have a set of group aliases in a router with a condition on it to
ensure only legitimate users could send to it).]

An alternative method would be to use a full scale MLM (Mailing List
Manager) such as Mailman ( http://www.list.org/ ) but this is almost
certainly serious overkill for your environment.

	Nigel.

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