John Peacock said the following on 03/01/2006 15:40: > Pascal Dreissen wrote: > >> I realy think qpsmtpd is a little useless right now without a plugin >> wich checks if an e-mail address is correct on the local system! > > > Obviously your concerns are a little overblown, as others have already > pointed out. In the spirit of TMTOWtDI, I wrote a very small finger > daemon which runs on our primary server (which contains the vpopmail > virtual domains/users). The inbound MX boxes can perform a very quick > check via Net::Finger to validate any address (I can even tell the > difference between an actual address, an alias, and a list). The > returned data is < 256bytes, so it is a very low overhead system, and I > am running the daemon under tcpserver, so only the hosts I specify can > even make finger requests.
I'd be interested in seeing that. R. -- http://robinbowes.com If a man speaks in a forest, and his wife's not there, is he still wrong?
