Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 12:26:56 -0500 From: Michel Di Croci <michel.dicroci@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Blocking an individual email address Message-ID: <e321688c0602150926h2f349c9es@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060215102656.A63014@bravo.pjkh.com> References: <03bf01c63247$d1c78ae0$2e07a8c0@domfirst.local> <20060215102656.A63014@bravo.pjkh.com>
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2006/2/15, Philip Hallstrom <freebsd@philip.pjkh.com>: > > > I am running a FreeBSD 5.4p10 machine at my office. It functions as our > > firewall and mailserver. I am running Mailscanner, which invokes > > sendmail when necessary to process mail. Sendmail is not started by > > default....Mailscanner invokes individual instances of it when it needs > > to. > > > > Here is my problem. I have an employee at my office that is sending > > work email to her home email address. I need to find a way to block her > > > email address, whether To, From, Cc, Bcc, or whatever, from passing > > through my mailserver. I have already added a line to /etc/mail/access > > (in the format email@address.com REJECT), and have run makemap hash > > /etc/mail/access.db < /etc/mail/access. I tested this with my personal > > email address (external to my network), and it had the effect of > > blocking any email orginating from my personal email to any address at > > my work, however it does not prevent me from sending emails to this > > address from a work address, which is the whole point. > > I doubt we know the whole story, but even if you do find a way to make > this work what stops her from... > > - emailing her work to her gmail/hotmail/yahoo account? > - copying her email and putting it on a thumb drive? > - printing it out and taking it home? > > If you are trying to stop her from taking "work material" home then you've > > got a much bigger problem. > There's also the issue that she can use a webmail to send mail to her house account and joining document there
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