On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Sam Clippinger <[email protected]> wrote:
> Invalid recipients are not rejected by qmail at all; qmail accepts
> messages for any user and later bounces them if the recipient doesn't
> exist.  This makes qmail a prolific source of backscatter spam.
>
> Even if qmail did reject invalid recipients, however, spamdyke wouldn't
> be able to use its return code.  This is because the graylisting
> rejection must take place before the recipient address is sent to
> qmail.  Once a recipient address has been added to a message, there is
> no way to remove it without closing and restarting the connection.
>
> I've been working on adding recipient validation to spamdyke and it's
> basically done.  I'm currently fixing some other bugs and testing the
> new features.
>
> -- Sam Clippinger
>

thanks for the clarification Sam, i cant wait for the new features!
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