Sendmail not verifying User

[Mike Kercher]

A simple solution is to use milter-sender.  It has a call-ahead feature that
will verify the final recipient before accepting the message.

Mike


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> Sent: Monday, May 31, 2004 5:58 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Sendmail not verifying User
>
> Hello All
>
> We are running:
>
> Solaris 9
> Sendmail 8.12.11
> MailScanner 4.29.7
> SpamAssassin I forget
>
>
> It seems as though when sendmail is in queueonly mode it does
> not check to see if the recipient is a valid user. It appears
> to read the virtusertable file as well as the access database
> and will act on those but not the password file.
>
>
> We accept mail from the outside world on two different
> machines and forward them off all shiney and sparkly to a 3rd
> machine for pickup by our members using the mailertable
> feature on the queue runner.
>
> We do not get a user unknown error until the queue runner
> tries to deliver to the internal machine. If the machine is
> not in queueonly mode then unknown recipients are rejected
> immediatley.
>
> This is not a new problem, it has been happening since the
> get go, I just have a lil spare time to try and get this solved.
>
> Any thoughts or ideas would be most appreciated.
>
> Thx
>
> Rick Noble
>
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