Can the validrcptto file handle wildcards? If so you could add
[EMAIL PROTECTED] where xxx is confirm, dated, keyword, and sender or
whatever you have TMDA setup to use for each of those types of keyed
addresses.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joseph Oaks
> Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 9:43 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: TMDA not releasing, generated email not passing 
> validrcptto file
> 
> David, the way the validrcptto patch for qmail works is this,
> you have a file in the /var/qmail/controls/ called validrcptto
> in that file you specify all your valid email address that
> your server accepts emails for. During the smtp handshake
> the smtp checks the rcptto filed and checks it against the
> validrcptto file if a match is made then it accepts the message,
> if not then it drops the connection right then without reading
> the rest (body) of the message. This patch had cut my qmail
> servers load down by about 80% and then thats not even taking
> a look at the network load that is saved.
> 
> >From that you can see why I want to keep the validrcptto patch
> and at the same time use TMDA, TMDA is great and I would like
> to get it working again. Yes I have the .qmail-default there
> however when tmda sends the challeng it appends the time stamp
> to the confirmation address... 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> as an example, that address is not in the validrcptto file
> only [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> Thats why I asked if there was a way to append the confirm
> address to the validrcptto file and then clean it out when the
> time expired.
> 
> Trell
> 
> David Grimberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> >
> > Joseph,
> >
> > My first guess as to what your problem is would be that you 
> are missing the
> > .qmail-default file that will allow qmail to accept 
> extension addresses.
> > This file should either be an exact copy of your .qmail 
> file, or a link to
> > your .qmail file.
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joseph Oaks
> > > Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 1:55 PM
> > > To: [email protected]
> > > Subject: TMDA not releasing, generated email not passing
> > > validrcptto file
> > >
> > > Ok, so I finally got my tmda to work, had to do in my .qmail file
> > > |preline /usr/bin/python /path/to/tmda/bin/tmda-filter -c
> > > /path/to/config
> > > ./Maildir/
> > >
> > > Now I have a problem, when tmda sends the challenge and you
> > > respond to it it
> > > gets
> > > rejected. I have qmail running with the validrcptto patch. I
> > > generated a 60
> > > minute
> > > email address and copied it to the file
> > > /var/qmail/control/validrcptto but yet
> > > I
> > > still get a failure notice saying the email address is not
> > > valid. I did a copy
> > > / paste
> > > so why is this not working?
> > >
> > > For those not familiar with the validrcptto file, you put
> > > valid email address
> > > in there
> > > and all others are dropped before the MTA finishes the
> > > handshake, great for
> > > blocking
> > > spam sent to multiple rcpt at the same domain.
> > >
> > > Is there a way to tell tmda to use a specific challenge email
> > > address and not
> > > generate one each time it get a message?
> > >
> > > Trell
> > >
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