Joseph,
you will get better response by posting to the mailing list :)
-R'twick
-------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: Joseph Oaks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: R'twick Niceorgaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: RE: TMDA not releasing, generated email not passing
> validrcptto file
> Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 11:50:34 -0700
> 
> Ahh, see thats an option, I do have access to the patch, however
> I'm not a coder to understand the patch :( I have placed a copy
> of the patch here http://www.trells.com/validrcptto.patch.txt
> if someone could tell me what line to add and where I would be
> more than happy to do this and test. Maybe this would be a great
> idea for other people too.
> 
> Trell
> 
> R'twick Niceorgaw ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Thu, May 5, 2005 12:43 pm, Joseph Oaks said:
> > > 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.
> >
> > if you have access to the validrcptto patch, then make a change to it to
> > first check in the validrcptto file if the user exists. if not then call
> > tmda-check-address with the rcpt address and see if it is a valid address
> > ( you can generate the actual email address form the rcptto address by
> > taking the first portion before '-' and add to it @yourdomain.dom and
> > figure out the correct tmda config file. If the check passes, accept it
> > else reject it.
> >
> > just an idea
> > R'twick
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