Wildcards in Delivery Restrictions?

[lksixt]

I'm at a school and we want to restrict the students to just get internal mail. I was hoping I could use Delivery Restrictions to accept only mail from *@school.org but that doesn't work, it needs to be a valid user name.

I could select all and add the entire domain, but everytime we added a new student or employee I would have to update each student's restrictions... not workable.

Is there away to designate all users within a domain in deliver restrictions? Or any other workaround to accomplish the same thing?

thanks,

Laura

 

[brontosaurus]

Hi Laura, I responded to your prior post, so let's use one or the other going forward. Let me know exactly what you want...

 

[lksixt]

Hi, thanks for responding. Ideally I'd like to be able to restrict sending and receiving but even if we could only block incoming mail that would be a step in the right direction.

And to make it a bit more complex, there might be times when a student might want to communicate with another school... exceptions?

 

[brontosaurus]

I guess this depends on how many students you need to restrict initially...the easy way to block internet mail completely would be to simply remove the domain extension from their SMTP address. If you just want to block inbound, you could create a new SMTP address (fake) on your Recipient Policy, allow it to propogate to the users, then remove the "real" SMTP address from those users you don't want receiving internet mail. The last way would involve creating an SMTP connector with your domain as the default address, and applying restrictions to the connector, but that's a bit more involved....

 

[lksixt]

So I don't delete the SMTP address completely, I just remove everything after @?

student@sonomadom.sonomaacademy.org

 

[brontosaurus]

you could actually just delete .org , this would make it an invalid address....

 

[lksixt]

that seems pretty easy. It could also be done on a student by student basis if need be.

thanks for your help

cheers, laura