On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 04:23:57 -0500, John Peacock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


> 2) use some out of band method to query the remote server for valid 
> mailboxes; I
> wrote a small finger server which queries my central vpopmail MySQL database 
> to
> validate the mailboxes; this is a much lighter weight check (and you have to
> remember to check aliases and list addresses, too).


<mode aspect="visionary" mood="frustrated">

DNS would work better for this since it has well-defined caching, unlike VRFY,
but adding a local cache would also work well,  and nobody wants to muck
with custom DNS servers that much

</mode>



-- 
David L Nicol

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