Shera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am very new to qmail, I have used sendmail for over 2 years for my
>mini-lan. I am having a slight problem, mail is delivered fine, but when I
>telnet to port 25 and vrfy user I get the message "252 send some mail, i'll
>try my best", Now if I check the RFC this just means that my users arent
>found locally but the mail server will try to send the email (I am a self
>taught sysadmin so excuse me for any term used improperly)
qmail doesn't implement VRFY because (1) qmail's modular design makes
it impractical, and (2) VRFY makes it easy to validate e-mail
addresses and local accounts--information that crackers and spammers
like.
>Since the mail works fine except for this Message 252 there is no big
>problem execpt that I have a program to verify users and it checks the mail
>server with vrfy user and right now my program wont work. So how do I fix
>it so qmail sees my users as local?
I suggest you use another method to verify your users, such as looking
in the password file.
-Dave
