On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Jason R. Mastaler wrote:
> Tim Rice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > SMTPRecipientsRefused: {'[EMAIL PROTECTED]': (550, '(BHST) Unknown
> > host/domain name in "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"')}
>
> [...]
>
> > The problem here is any bogus user/domain combination will continue
> > to generate new pending messages until the message expires from the
> > incoming (local in MMDF speak) queue.
>
> Is it just bogus host/domains that are refused by your SMTP server?
Unfortunatly, no. Like other MTAs you get that type of error from
temporary DNS problems.
>
> If so, can't you configure your MTA to not accept mail from bogus
> domains in the first place? That's what I do on my qmail server, and
> it prevents lots of unnecessary confirmation requests.
>
> > I'm trying to wrap my head around the code but right now I'm clueless
> > as to what file(s) I'll need to modify to get this to work.
>
> We discussed this at length on this list several months ago, and there
> is no reliable way to handle this situation in TMDA. It's best to
> attack the problem at the MTA level. For those that aren't able to do
> this, my suggestion was use 'sendmail' instead of 'smtp', but I guess
> in your case that won't help.
What if we keep a MD5 hash index of the imcoming messages that are in
the pending queue and check against this in confirm mode.
(Am I making sense?)
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