At 12:22 PM 4/16/2009, you wrote:
On 4/16/2009 3:11 PM, Evan Platt wrote:
> My mail provider says they can query an LDAP database, but can't offer
> much assistance to me in setting it up.
>
> Baiscally now I use /etc/posfix/aliases, but that's obviously useless
> for LDAP.
Surprising - they can't do recipient verification (doesn't require LDAP,
just relies on an honest answer from your server)?
I can ask... I don't think so since when I've brought this up in the
past, the response is 'get an ldap server dude!'
In that case, what I'd do is use plus-addressing instead of making up
fullblown aliases on the fly.
So - if my username is joesmith, use say joesmith+abcincorporated @
mydomain . com?
Well, the problem still is I'd rather have them reject the e-mail
rather then accept then deliver..
Your anti-spam service provider should have the ability to simply define
a list of valid users via flat file if nothing else
Well, the problem is whenever I sign up for a list or make a
purchase, I create a new one, so I'd be sending them a list pretty
often, hence the idea of LDAP.
(if they can't, I'd switch providers), so just make sure they
support plus addressing, and
give them your one (or however many) valid emails and be done with it......
Well, the price for them is right - free :) But the problem is
dynamics. I don't want to have to bug them every time I add or remove
an address... :)
Evan
