Parental Controls - Allows Allow Not Working - a Solution

Question

So this is actually in reply to this thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1805596&tstart=0&messageID=911 3494#9113494
Since it is archived, I can't actually reply to that thread though - yet it comes up so high in Google's search that I have to reply somehow.
Here's the problem's set up:
You have a child with Parental Controls enabled and email managed. The child gets an email from someone or attempts to send email to someone that is not permitted. You have your email address listed as the permission address, and get an email with a button in Apple Mail that reads "Always Allow". Clicking that button does nothing.
If you look at the headers for that request message, they look like this (this is from the child sending to someone that is not yet permitted):
Subject: (Subject Here)
Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2010 20:33:39 -0500
Resent-To: (Your Address Here)
Resent-From: Child's Name <childs@address>
X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.915)
X-Apple-Mail-Parental-Control-Addresses: (Disallowed Recipient Name) <recip@address>
X-Apple-Mail-Parental-Control-Request: recipients
Resent-Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2010 20:33:39 -0500
So, after that lengthy bit, here's the issue in a nutshell - many people have multiple email aliases that deliver to one mailbox. I have tony@mydomain and numbski@mydomain. Apple mail is configured to send from numbski@mydomain, but I had the kid's parental controls set to send permission requests to tony@mydomain. The result is that the permission request doesn't even render properly, let alone allow you to act on the request in any useful way.
The fix is either to change the address in the parental controls or change your sending email address in Apple Mail.

Answer 1

Hi,
I cannot speak from experience, but only from reading the Help, but as I read that, I have the impression that the administrative account is expected to be running on the same machine. While I believe you would also see the messages on another Mac , but only if your account on the child's Mac was setting it all up. Furthermore, I wonder if the release can be triggered from your email account on another machine. But I mostly studied this for someone using Tiger, and have not re-briefed myself for Leopard.
Do you share this Mac, and via hot swap is your Admin account always running?
Ernie