email groups

[mnauta]

we have several email distribution lists (groups) for example "all-staff@...). How can a deny users on the mail server from sending mail to the group?

For example, we want only designated users be able to sent out all-staff emails.

Thanks
manuel

[jaime.pinto]

You can do a search on the forum for keyword "senderservicelevel", but the following post should help you get directly what you want to do:
viewtopic.php?t=3832&highlight=senderservicelevel

[Valerion]

Or you can set ACL's on the PDL's. That way you can also determine who can see who is members, etc. This may be easier to manage (IMO) than setting service levels and changing the delivery rulesets.

Look at the om*aci commands (ommodaci, omaddaci, omdelaci).

[mnauta]

I don't think these suggestions are workable in our environment. I would have to do this for 250 users for 26 groups. In addition each semester 90 staff people turn over.

As a work around I unchecked "display in address book" option in SAC , but that only affects the Outlook address book, not the To: search in a new message in SWA

[Valerion]

If there are similarities in the groups, you can try to script something that automatically applies the correct permissions to the correct PDL's, maybe using some DB or text file as input.

[mikethebike]

Manuel,

I would not normally recommend this, but as you seem to have a high turnover of staff, and studenst I guess, this may be the solution

Create a mailnode for each type of user:
staff
student
finance
research

Create or modify the users to be in these groups.

Then set ACLs on the PDLs to only allow users in ou=staff to send to those restricted pdls etc.
It may be that the student pdls can be mailed by anyone, in which case there would be no ACL.

Mick