Looking for strict local mail server (no email sending and receving from outside world)












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I am looking for a mail solution (or server) that work only inside an office and only employees inside the office can send and receive the email from each other. I don't want the employee to send email to the outside world even if they try to send email to abc[at]gmail.com, etc.



In brief, I want to set up a mail server in my office (for 60+ employees) with a local domain name (say aman.local) and each employee will have their own email address (e.g. emp1@aman.local, emp2@aman.local, etc) on aman.local domain. And the employees will communicate with each other using the above email addresses. Here, the mail server should only process email with aman.local domain name and reject processing of other domain names (like gmail.com, etc) to restrict remote email sending.



So far I tried the following things:



I know I can restrict the incoming email by skipping the MX config.




  1. hMailServer, Poste.io, and Mailu.com but didn't find a way to restrict remote email sending (say to gmail.com, etc)

  2. Tried to find a way in Roundcude Webmail client to reject sending to email other than the allowed domain name. But all in vain.


Thanks in Advance. :)










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    I am looking for a mail solution (or server) that work only inside an office and only employees inside the office can send and receive the email from each other. I don't want the employee to send email to the outside world even if they try to send email to abc[at]gmail.com, etc.



    In brief, I want to set up a mail server in my office (for 60+ employees) with a local domain name (say aman.local) and each employee will have their own email address (e.g. emp1@aman.local, emp2@aman.local, etc) on aman.local domain. And the employees will communicate with each other using the above email addresses. Here, the mail server should only process email with aman.local domain name and reject processing of other domain names (like gmail.com, etc) to restrict remote email sending.



    So far I tried the following things:



    I know I can restrict the incoming email by skipping the MX config.




    1. hMailServer, Poste.io, and Mailu.com but didn't find a way to restrict remote email sending (say to gmail.com, etc)

    2. Tried to find a way in Roundcude Webmail client to reject sending to email other than the allowed domain name. But all in vain.


    Thanks in Advance. :)










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      I am looking for a mail solution (or server) that work only inside an office and only employees inside the office can send and receive the email from each other. I don't want the employee to send email to the outside world even if they try to send email to abc[at]gmail.com, etc.



      In brief, I want to set up a mail server in my office (for 60+ employees) with a local domain name (say aman.local) and each employee will have their own email address (e.g. emp1@aman.local, emp2@aman.local, etc) on aman.local domain. And the employees will communicate with each other using the above email addresses. Here, the mail server should only process email with aman.local domain name and reject processing of other domain names (like gmail.com, etc) to restrict remote email sending.



      So far I tried the following things:



      I know I can restrict the incoming email by skipping the MX config.




      1. hMailServer, Poste.io, and Mailu.com but didn't find a way to restrict remote email sending (say to gmail.com, etc)

      2. Tried to find a way in Roundcude Webmail client to reject sending to email other than the allowed domain name. But all in vain.


      Thanks in Advance. :)










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      I am looking for a mail solution (or server) that work only inside an office and only employees inside the office can send and receive the email from each other. I don't want the employee to send email to the outside world even if they try to send email to abc[at]gmail.com, etc.



      In brief, I want to set up a mail server in my office (for 60+ employees) with a local domain name (say aman.local) and each employee will have their own email address (e.g. emp1@aman.local, emp2@aman.local, etc) on aman.local domain. And the employees will communicate with each other using the above email addresses. Here, the mail server should only process email with aman.local domain name and reject processing of other domain names (like gmail.com, etc) to restrict remote email sending.



      So far I tried the following things:



      I know I can restrict the incoming email by skipping the MX config.




      1. hMailServer, Poste.io, and Mailu.com but didn't find a way to restrict remote email sending (say to gmail.com, etc)

      2. Tried to find a way in Roundcude Webmail client to reject sending to email other than the allowed domain name. But all in vain.


      Thanks in Advance. :)







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          You can do at least two things:




          1. Use postfix and restrict the domains of senders and recipients as it is described here



          Restrict Sender and Recipient



          This section describes how to restrict both the sender and recipient.
          Example usage of this is when you have a private domain which should
          not be allowed to send to the internet. Edit main.cf1. Edit the file
          /etc/postfix/main.cf and add the lines below.




          smtpd_recipient_restrictions =    check_sender_access 
          hash:/etc/postfix/sender_access, reject_unauth_destinations

          smtpd_restriction_classes = local_only
          local_only = check_recipient_access
          hash:/etc/postfix/local_domains, reject



          Edit sender_access




          1. Create the file /etc/postfix/sender_access and review the example below.




          acme.local  local_only



          Edit local_domains




          1. Create the file /etc/postfix/local_domains and review the example below.




          acme.local  OK



          Edit sender_access




          1. Type in the command belows in a terminal window to create the hash files.




          postmap /etc/postfix/sender_access 
          postmap /etc/postfix/local_domains



          1. The other way is to set your firewall to reject all incomming and outgoing communications via ports 25, 465 and 587






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            Thanks Romeo! Your solution worked!

            – Aman
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          You can do at least two things:




          1. Use postfix and restrict the domains of senders and recipients as it is described here



          Restrict Sender and Recipient



          This section describes how to restrict both the sender and recipient.
          Example usage of this is when you have a private domain which should
          not be allowed to send to the internet. Edit main.cf1. Edit the file
          /etc/postfix/main.cf and add the lines below.




          smtpd_recipient_restrictions =    check_sender_access 
          hash:/etc/postfix/sender_access, reject_unauth_destinations

          smtpd_restriction_classes = local_only
          local_only = check_recipient_access
          hash:/etc/postfix/local_domains, reject



          Edit sender_access




          1. Create the file /etc/postfix/sender_access and review the example below.




          acme.local  local_only



          Edit local_domains




          1. Create the file /etc/postfix/local_domains and review the example below.




          acme.local  OK



          Edit sender_access




          1. Type in the command belows in a terminal window to create the hash files.




          postmap /etc/postfix/sender_access 
          postmap /etc/postfix/local_domains



          1. The other way is to set your firewall to reject all incomming and outgoing communications via ports 25, 465 and 587






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            Thanks Romeo! Your solution worked!

            – Aman
            Dec 17 '18 at 18:25
















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          You can do at least two things:




          1. Use postfix and restrict the domains of senders and recipients as it is described here



          Restrict Sender and Recipient



          This section describes how to restrict both the sender and recipient.
          Example usage of this is when you have a private domain which should
          not be allowed to send to the internet. Edit main.cf1. Edit the file
          /etc/postfix/main.cf and add the lines below.




          smtpd_recipient_restrictions =    check_sender_access 
          hash:/etc/postfix/sender_access, reject_unauth_destinations

          smtpd_restriction_classes = local_only
          local_only = check_recipient_access
          hash:/etc/postfix/local_domains, reject



          Edit sender_access




          1. Create the file /etc/postfix/sender_access and review the example below.




          acme.local  local_only



          Edit local_domains




          1. Create the file /etc/postfix/local_domains and review the example below.




          acme.local  OK



          Edit sender_access




          1. Type in the command belows in a terminal window to create the hash files.




          postmap /etc/postfix/sender_access 
          postmap /etc/postfix/local_domains



          1. The other way is to set your firewall to reject all incomming and outgoing communications via ports 25, 465 and 587






          share|improve this answer



















          • 1





            Thanks Romeo! Your solution worked!

            – Aman
            Dec 17 '18 at 18:25














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          0







          You can do at least two things:




          1. Use postfix and restrict the domains of senders and recipients as it is described here



          Restrict Sender and Recipient



          This section describes how to restrict both the sender and recipient.
          Example usage of this is when you have a private domain which should
          not be allowed to send to the internet. Edit main.cf1. Edit the file
          /etc/postfix/main.cf and add the lines below.




          smtpd_recipient_restrictions =    check_sender_access 
          hash:/etc/postfix/sender_access, reject_unauth_destinations

          smtpd_restriction_classes = local_only
          local_only = check_recipient_access
          hash:/etc/postfix/local_domains, reject



          Edit sender_access




          1. Create the file /etc/postfix/sender_access and review the example below.




          acme.local  local_only



          Edit local_domains




          1. Create the file /etc/postfix/local_domains and review the example below.




          acme.local  OK



          Edit sender_access




          1. Type in the command belows in a terminal window to create the hash files.




          postmap /etc/postfix/sender_access 
          postmap /etc/postfix/local_domains



          1. The other way is to set your firewall to reject all incomming and outgoing communications via ports 25, 465 and 587






          share|improve this answer













          You can do at least two things:




          1. Use postfix and restrict the domains of senders and recipients as it is described here



          Restrict Sender and Recipient



          This section describes how to restrict both the sender and recipient.
          Example usage of this is when you have a private domain which should
          not be allowed to send to the internet. Edit main.cf1. Edit the file
          /etc/postfix/main.cf and add the lines below.




          smtpd_recipient_restrictions =    check_sender_access 
          hash:/etc/postfix/sender_access, reject_unauth_destinations

          smtpd_restriction_classes = local_only
          local_only = check_recipient_access
          hash:/etc/postfix/local_domains, reject



          Edit sender_access




          1. Create the file /etc/postfix/sender_access and review the example below.




          acme.local  local_only



          Edit local_domains




          1. Create the file /etc/postfix/local_domains and review the example below.




          acme.local  OK



          Edit sender_access




          1. Type in the command belows in a terminal window to create the hash files.




          postmap /etc/postfix/sender_access 
          postmap /etc/postfix/local_domains



          1. The other way is to set your firewall to reject all incomming and outgoing communications via ports 25, 465 and 587







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            Thanks Romeo! Your solution worked!

            – Aman
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            Thanks Romeo! Your solution worked!

            – Aman
            Dec 17 '18 at 18:25








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          Thanks Romeo! Your solution worked!

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          Dec 17 '18 at 18:25





          Thanks Romeo! Your solution worked!

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