On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 06:35:08PM -0500, Jesse Guardiani wrote: > This new idea is very intriguing. Basically, any message that makes it > to the pending queue (or doesn't make it to your inbox, depending on > how you look at it) would be piped through a Python, Perl, or C > program that would extract the sender address and attempt a reverse > SMTP probe. If the probe definitively indicates that the user doesn't > exist on the specified host, then TMDA drops the email from the > pending queue.
You might look at the perl module Mail::CheckUser. I've used it with good results when the need was to determine if an address is explicitly undeliverable. -- ---- Art Sackett ---- http://www.artsackett.com/ PGP/GPG Public Key: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (autoresponder) We were so poor we couldn't afford a watchdog. If we heard a noise at night, we'd bark ourselves. -- Crazy Jimmy
