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Title:Microsoft Exchange Server
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Moderator:FLASK2::SYSTEM
Created:Fri Feb 17 1995
Last Modified:Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:Thu Jun 05 1997
Number of topics:1099
Total number of notes:5174

843.0. "Restrict mailing addresses?" by CHEFS::HEWITTC (Comms=tin cans+wet string) Tue Jan 28 1997 15:17

    
    This seems a relatively simple question that I'm having trouble getting
    an answer to!!  Customer wishes to know if there is anyway that
    Exchange can restrict the destinations to which selected users can 
    send mail, for example there is a mapping table somewhere that has valid
    destinations and the users that can mail to them? 
    Basically they are paranoid that some rogue user will start mailing
    company info across the Internet to competitors.
    
    Colin.
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843.1You can through connectors.FLASK2::SYSTEMNigel Bridport @REOTue Jan 28 1997 16:478
	If you are asking the question, Can you restrict mail going out 
	through a connector (IMC/X.400), then the answer is yes.

	The delivery restirctions tab of the relevant connector will enable
	you to restrict who sends out and who you can receive mail from.

Nigel.
843.2don't get a false sense of securityPARZVL::ccsr8.ogo.dec.com::kennedynuncam non paratusTue Jan 28 1997 17:369
Just make sure they don't regard this as any sort of
guarantee!  Unless you restrict people from sending 
externally at all, I'm sure it's possible to get around
limits on sending to a particular domain (e.g. send to
a mailing list, route thru another external domain...).

The company should also define an acceptable use policy
and make sure employees must adhere to it.  Legal 
restrictions are harder to circumvent than technical ones.
843.3Reject by Hostwendys::dhcp-3-220.alf.dec.com::alfss2::jones_bThu Jan 30 1997 22:353
You may also accept or reject by host in the Connections tab of the IMC. 
However, for this you would have to know the IP address of the competitor's 
mail gateway that was suspect.