Share real email addresses between MailScanner and Exchange

Martin Hepworth martinh at SOLID-STATE-LOGIC.COM
Fri Dec 17 17:48:48 GMT 2004


Kevin

there's some scripts floating around tyhe 'net that grab the ldap info
from AD and make a postfix equivalent of the sendmail /etc/mail/access file

They are batch jobs rather than on the fly checks (so do them once a day
or so to update), but you might be able to mangle them to cope with
sendmail.


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Martin Hepworth
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Kevin Miller wrote:
> Steve Swaney wrote:
>
>>I believe that milter-sender only works with Exchange 2003 because
>>Exchange 2000 and 5.5 cannot be configured to reject email for
>>non-existent users. In 2003 the default install also blindly accepts
>>email for any username. You must specifically re-configure Exchange
>>to reject email for non-existent users.
>
>
> Thanks Steve,
>
> We're rolling to 2003 in a few months so I guess I'll put off science
> experiments until then.  Sure will be a lot easier than hand rolling the
> /etc/mail/access file!
>
> ...Kevin
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