I had a thread before about using MD with MailScanner. The thread was about
whether I should use MD on a machine with MS to block invalid users from a
secondary MX to the mail store where the real mailboxes lived. That thread
sort of ended with me learning a whole lot about the email process, but I
didn't end up with much useful output on my end.
Now I see the thread about the "md_check_against_smtp_server" function. I
installed MD (for the first time), set up sendmail, modified the subroutine
"filter_recipients" to handle 3 domains, changed the sysconfig/mimedefang
file, and after correcting my typos, I find it works!
I did get a few questions about the process, though, that may be answered if
any of you have the time.
1). How much of mimedefang-filter would be needed if all's I wanted to do
was do this look-ahead check? I really haven't determined if filter-begin,
filter, etc is needed if I start mimedefang with the -t flag to do these
checks.
2). It would be nice to be able to do the md_check_against_smtp_server
using an IP address as opposed to a hostname for the variable $rcpt_host.
Looking at my logs, I see where it checks the IP defined by my DNS for the
$rcpt_host, even though I have a different internal address defined in my
host file (much like sendmail does if you don't put square brackets around
the IP), so I guess it is working correctly. Is there anyway to force the
function to use an alternately-defined IP for a hostname?
Thanks so much for the great software and any help any of you might provide.
Steve Campbell
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Charleston Newspapers
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