Restricting where e-mails can be sent

[colners]

The problem:
A senior manager has requested that Outlook users should only be able to e-mail internal staff members and those on a specified list of external contacts. We do not want to give users the ability to e-mail anyone.

We envisage that the list be maintained by our Exchange administrator and then appended to when necessary.

Can anyone please advise me on how to achieve this in Exchange 5.5?

Regards

 

[irishguywi]

We have done something similar to this in our organization...but Exchange itself can't do it. We wound up purchasing Trend Interscan.

It has a content management module that can block mail on the way in and the way out. Which would allow you to have a list of recipients that would not get "bounced".


As for other users, in Exchange Admin you should be able to enable mail size quotas. If you go into "limits" you should be able to set outgoing messages to a maximum of 1K. This will stop users from being able to send mail...internal or external...but let them receive incoming mail. The only problem with this method is that users will get an error message if they try to send an email. So it is not a "seamless" solution.


Hope this helps.