Re: disabling mail for certain users?

[Martin Schulze <joey@office.individual.net>]

On Jul 25, Paul Miller wrote
> How can I disable mail for certian users?  I want a group or something
> that only users in that group can send email.

Simply: you can't.

If you're having non-experienced users you can do: chmod 750 all
MUAs and chgrp them to group usemail.  Put all allowed users into
the usemail group.

Experienced users will call /usr/lib/sendmail directly or use
a remote smtp-server, so you really can't disable mail.

Joey

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