Other paid for mail scanner/filters (these are ones that mail just passes
thru) have the ability to check rcptto against an LDAP lookup.
That would solve the problem, only Xmail would then need to be an LDAP
server as well as an LDAP client.

So,......

Helo abc.com
Mail from:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Rcpt to:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
   Lookup name in LDAP server, found, accept.
Rcpt to:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
   Lookup name in LDAP server, not found, reject "unknown user"
Data
....Etc.

Potentially you would have a TAB that defined the domains and their
method/location of LDAP lookup.  This could therefore be used for other
verification methods, but in the LDAP case, would define the server to query
and the base DN.

The LDAP support I can see going far further.  What about those sites that
have an existing x.500 based directory (NDS, MS AD, iPlanet, etc), they
could use xmail as a frontend, verifying or even authenticating to the
corporate LDAP server.

This I can see a use for, but having hooks after each SMTP command (more or
less) is a bit much.
Recently someone posted having probs with too many filters running because
of being hit by a burst of spam.  Too many pitfalls.

Rob :-)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Davide Libenzi
> Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 7:19 AM
> To: XMail mailing list
> Subject: [xmail] Re: AW: Re: AW: Re: AW: Re: AW: Re: AW: Re: 
> SMTP Dialog Filter Hooks
> 
> Let me think about this issue. It can be eventually solved in 
> another way.
> 
> - Davide

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