Tapani Tarvainen wrote: > On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 02:50:21PM -0400, Ricardo Stella ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > >> I've been pushing for some time to get up-to-date and valid user >> listsings autoupdated for some time, but it's been way to slow... >> The thing was that allowing only valid users would basically provide >> verification of valid email addresses. >> > > That's silly. What happens with nonexistent addresses in the mail > store servers now? If they send DSN messages that also provides > verification, if they silently discard the messages you could just > as well do that in sendmail-rx. > > The thing is that most spam bots will not accecpt a bounce message. Different than accepting or not the message at the beginning. In any case, the problem I have is to get a valid user list >> Since we forward the mail to the final mail >> store servers, would milter help in this regard ? Ie, would the message >> be denied since the destination server would rejected it as the user is >> unkown ? >> > > You don't need milter for that. All you need is virtusertable in > sendmail-rx with all known addresses and wildcard, which can either > reject or discard unknown addresses. Easy, fast and efficient. > I know that. Again, the problem is I don't have a way to get a valid list of users updated automatically... What's odd is that before, the mail servers would not be able to process enough mail and I would get messages piled up on sendmail-tx. Now, amavisd can't process them fast enough...
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