Re: 550 User Unknown

2001-02-13 Thread Rod... Whitworth
On Mon, 12 Feb 2001 14:49:37 -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote: Am I right in think qmail-smtpd will never give this error? Yes. However, it should be noted that servers which do return this error are revealing valuable information -- spammers can use this technique to build a list of valid email

550 User Unknown

2001-02-12 Thread Herbie
Am I right in think qmail-smtpd will never give this error? As I see it qmail-smtpd will only check the domain of the message to see if it is valid, ie it will accept any valid username for localhost whether the user actually exists on the system or not. Is that part handled by qmail-send?

Re: 550 User Unknown

2001-02-12 Thread Peter van Dijk
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 02:29:27PM -0600, Herbie wrote: Am I right in think qmail-smtpd will never give this error? Yes. As I see it qmail-smtpd will only check the domain of the message to see if it is valid, ie it will accept any valid username for localhost whether the user actually

Re: 550 User Unknown

2001-02-12 Thread Charles Cazabon
Herbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am I right in think qmail-smtpd will never give this error? Yes. However, it should be noted that servers which do return this error are revealing valuable information -- spammers can use this technique to build a list of valid email addresses, simply by

Re: 550 User Unknown

2001-02-12 Thread Scott Gifford
Herbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Am I right in think qmail-smtpd will never give this error? Yes. As I see it qmail-smtpd will only check the domain of the message to see if it is valid, ie it will accept any valid username for localhost whether the user actually exists on the system or