Re: [exim] Brain Teaser - how would you do this?

2006-04-04 Thread Chris Thompson
W B Hacker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] But TWX and Telex are no longer a factor, and X.400 not far behind - outside of a few specialty organizations. Indeed, I was interested to see that RFC 4450 (Getting Rid of the Cruft: Report from an Experiment in Identifying and Reclassifying

Re: [exim] Brain Teaser - how would you do this?

2006-04-04 Thread Tony Finch
On Tue, 4 Apr 2006, Chris Thompson wrote: W B Hacker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But TWX and Telex are no longer a factor, and X.400 not far behind - outside of a few specialty organizations. Indeed, I was interested to see that RFC 4450 (Getting Rid of the Cruft: Report from an Experiment

Re: [exim] Brain Teaser - how would you do this?

2006-04-03 Thread christoph . kliemt
Marc Perkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: OK - here's what I want to do. I want to forward a copy of selected email to another email address, but only if the email address that I want to forward to is a valid working email address. Interesting idea. So - I need to do a callout and check if the

Re: [exim] Brain Teaser - how would you do this?

2006-04-03 Thread W B Hacker
Marc Perkel wrote: OK - here's what I want to do. I want to forward a copy of selected email to another email address, but only if the email address that I want to forward to is a valid working email address. So - I need to do a callout and check if the email address is valid before I forward

Re: [exim] Brain Teaser - how would you do this?

2006-04-03 Thread Tony Finch
On Mon, 3 Apr 2006, Marc Perkel wrote: OK - here's what I want to do. I want to forward a copy of selected email to another email address, but only if the email address that I want to forward to is a valid working email address. So - I need to do a callout and check if the email address is

Re: [exim] Brain Teaser - how would you do this?

2006-04-03 Thread Marc Perkel
Tony Finch wrote: On Mon, 3 Apr 2006, Marc Perkel wrote: OK - here's what I want to do. I want to forward a copy of selected email to another email address, but only if the email address that I want to forward to is a valid working email address. So - I need to do a callout and check if

Re: [exim] Brain Teaser - how would you do this?

2006-04-03 Thread W B Hacker
Marc Perkel wrote: *trimmed* the email address I need to verify isn't either the sender or the recipient. I need to verify and arbetrary address that I generate to see if it exists Pardon my ignorance, but if you are the one who 'generates' it and it is truly 'arbitrary' then WOGGE would

Re: [exim] Brain Teaser - how would you do this?

2006-04-03 Thread Marc Perkel
W B Hacker wrote: Marc Perkel wrote: *trimmed* the email address I need to verify isn't either the sender or the recipient. I need to verify and arbetrary address that I generate to see if it exists Pardon my ignorance, but if you are the one who 'generates' it and it is truly

Re: [exim] Brain Teaser - how would you do this?

2006-04-03 Thread W B Hacker
Marc Perkel wrote: W B Hacker wrote: Marc Perkel wrote: *trimmed* the email address I need to verify isn't either the sender or the recipient. I need to verify and arbetrary address that I generate to see if it exists Pardon my ignorance, but if you are the one who 'generates' it

Re: [exim] Brain Teaser - how would you do this?

2006-04-03 Thread Tony Finch
On Tue, 4 Apr 2006, W B Hacker wrote: require verify = recipient/callout Well - yes, if on the same server No, callouts work across servers. We use this on the MXs in Cambridge to verify addresses in departments such as the Computer Lab that run their own email servers. It also works

Re: [exim] Brain Teaser - how would you do this?

2006-04-03 Thread Tony Finch
On Mon, 3 Apr 2006, Marc Perkel wrote: But - some of my customers are asking to get a copy of the spam I'm bouncing/black holing. So what I want to do is if I detect spam then I want to forward a copy of it to another email address, but only if I can do a forward callout and verify the

Re: [exim] Brain Teaser - how would you do this?

2006-04-03 Thread W B Hacker
Tony Finch wrote: On Tue, 4 Apr 2006, W B Hacker wrote: require verify = recipient/callout Well - yes, if on the same server No, callouts work across servers. We use this on the MXs in Cambridge to verify addresses in departments such as the Computer Lab that run their own email