Block outgoing mail w/ bad addressing

[Ed Wallig]

They do have an address book (several, actually) and I can jam all the
education in the world into them but ultimately if they do not listen or
do not care then it mean nothing. 

You are right - there could be an occasion where the "crow-bar" approach
causes problems but in weighing risk / benefit, I would rather stop the
existing problem and deal with the occasional issue than have the
chronic problem.

 

-----Original Message-----
From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
[mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Jethro
R Binks
Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 6:59 PM
To: MailScanner discussion
Subject: Re: Block outgoing mail w/ bad addressing

On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Ken A wrote:

> > *	Check to see if the message has been addressed with an improper
> > email domain (username at maildomain .com instead of maildomain.net, 
> > etc)
> 
> Yeah, our users have fatter fingers than your users! You can do this 
> in sendmail access map. Postfix has something similar, I'm sure..

Why on earth are you trying to implement a technical solution to this
problem?

> To:sbcgobal.com        ERROR:5.1.1:550 Please check spelling on
recipient
> domain - should be sbcglobal.net

What if you really need to mail sbcgobal.com or maildomain.com some day?

Either you can't, or you take this rule away again, in which case your
problem comes back.

This is a user education issue, not a "crow-bar in any inappropriate fix
to compensate for naiive or careless users".

At least you could give them an address book, then they don't need to
(mis)type anything.

Jethro.

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Jethro R Binks
Computing Officer, IT Services
University Of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
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