On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 10:34:23PM -0600, Shane Boulter wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I'm in the process of wrapping up a new qmail-ldap server for our 
> company.  I'm using qmail-ldap and the qmail-scanner program.  I really 
> liked the qmail-scanner program however I didn't like how long it took 
> for a client to send it an email.  So following the qmail-scanner people 
> recommendations I install two instances of qmail-ldap.  One outside 
> facing and one inside.  Basically all emails come though the outside 
> facing qmail-ldap instance and are forwarded using smtproutes to the 
> inside qmail-ldap instance.  This allows for no delays to clients in 
> sending emails.
> 
> I was extremely happy with this setup until I entered our new host in 
> the dns as a mx record.  I then started to get all these emails to fake 
> email addresses.  eg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> I realize that by setting the RCPTCHECK variable it should just bounce 
> these but after reading the notes on how RCPTCHECK works I finally 
> understand why it doesn't work for my situation.  As I don't have any 
> domains in my outside facing qmail-ldap control/locals it never checks 
> for these users to really exist.  I can't have my domains in my outside 
> control/locals as all I want this instance to do is forward the email 
> using smtproutes to my inside qmail-ldap instance.
> 
> Is there a reason why the RCPTCHECK doesn't go against the 
> control/rcpthosts?  And the big question is could it be programmed to be 
> more like the SENDERCHECK option where I can turn it to check against 
> the control/rcpthosts file?
> 

You need to set this up as a cluster. The antivirus gateway is accepting
mails and does also a local delivery but because the mailHost attribute is
set to your internal mailserver it will forward the mails.
With this you can use RCPTCHECK.

There is also a simpler solution with a mini-qmail setup on the av gateway
which does not need any changes in the ldap db. The actual setup is left
open as an exercise for the reader :)

-- 
:wq Claudio

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