[ale] Re: limiting access to e-mail aliases

[Fred B. Ringel]

On Thu, 19 Dec 1996, Jon-Michael J. DeBona wrote:

>Is it possible to place limits on who can use e-mail aliases?  We have
>an alias that sends e-mail to every username on our system.  An unhappy
>customer figured out that he could use it and express his worthless
>thoughts about our service to everyone of our other customers.  We could
>comment it out in the alias file and uncomment it everytime we wanted to
>use it...(inconvenient)...or I guess send mail to everyone in a file. 
>I've heard there is a way limit who can send mail to an alias though. 
>(Sendmail 8.8.4)  TIA...

	Although most of our customers are happy, to avoid this I set up a
moderated mailing list with Smart-List so only I can post to it. That way
only "official" messages get out to all our users.

	Fred
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