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
