>> our ASSP receives an SMTP connection from an external MUA, > ? it generally only accepts connections from other MTAs, not MUAs... at > least that is the only way I have ever used it...
when a mailserver sends an email to another mailserver, the sending party is generally identified as MUA, while the receiving one as MTA and this should be clear enough after reading some RFCs, that said... > No... I WANT ASSP to only accept mail from other MTAs for valid > recipients... thats the whole point of recipient validation. exactly what the "VRFY" command issued from ASSP does > ASSP should almost *always* (there are some very specific and > rare circumstances where this may not be the case) perform recipient > validation for *all* domains - and *only* domains - that it is > authoritative for. that's ok, but since, in some cases, ASSP can't use LDAP and can't use a flat-file for valid addresses, VRFY may help allowing ASSP to perform recipient validation; I suspect you didn't still understand the whole idea ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Assp-test mailing list Assp-test@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-test
