> I wrote a Cold Fusion script that looks for these silly text files > every so many minutes and then parses the crappy, cluttered thing > into a nice clean CSV for me, and now I can do anything I want with > it. I imagine that someday I'll use it in conjunction with the > gateway, but hey, I have this information right now.
> What would be the best way to use this information with Declude? I'll answer your query without padding your stated needs. 5XXSink is a connection-time event sink for MS SMTP (that is, a plug-in written to the MS API) expressly designed for high-performance recipient validation against a text file, with changes taking effect immediately. Simple to operate: you maintain lists of valid recipient domains and users, it rejects anything not on that list. You can set up an MS SMTP instance as your MX, same-box, forwarding to SmarterMail. Whatever else you do with MS SMTP is up to you, 5XXSINK is just built for it because it's a highly reliable and OS-bundled MTA. 5XXSINK is free. It is in prod at numerous sites with no reported problems. (I'm the primary developer of this tool, and all of our downloadable tools are free software.) http://www.imprimia.com/products/software/freeutils/5xxsink/download/release Later, when it comes to building your gateway, you know you'll have a plethora of options across OSs and vendors/communities. For now, 5XXSINK is the fastest existing method I know of directly. OTOH, if you were using IMail as the MTA wrapper for Declude, it would be possible to do all this stuff natively within IMail by using a "smart store-and-forward" setup and some sync scripts for your S&F domains. The same logic seems possible for SM, and would certainly be the "best way" in theory; but if you've already probed their forums, I assume there's no established "cookbook" from that side. Note that there are many other products basically equivalent to MS SMTP + 5XXSINK insofar as this need is concerned: they're easy-to-maintain, lightweight Windows-based MTAs that perform recipient validation from text files and thus can serve the same purpose as an MX running on the same box as your mailbox server. Mind you, their *additional* features, footprint, and scaleability vary enormously, but here they would all fill the bill. Mercury/32's SMTP module is one I can def'ly vouch for. --Sandy ------------------------------------ Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Broadleaf Systems, a division of Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SpamAssassin plugs into Declude! http://www.imprimia.com/products/software/freeutils/SPAMC32/download/release/ Defuse Dictionary Attacks: Turn Exchange or IMail mailboxes into IMail Aliases! http://www.imprimia.com/products/software/freeutils/exchange2aliases/download/release/ http://www.imprimia.com/products/software/freeutils/ldap2aliases/download/release/ --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
