Mailto's being marked as detected fraud attempt.

Ed Bruce ebruce at HPMICH.COM
Tue Nov 16 12:39:59 GMT 2004


I'm seeing this problem now were mailto: is being marked as detected
fraud attempt. I've just installed the latest Message.pm from yesterday.

Brian Berglund wrote:
      Does anyone know how to do the following?
 
I want to setup Sendmail to connect to a mysql database to check
for users.
 
Meaning. 
In my database I have.
 
domain name:
email address:
relay location:
 
so it looks like
 
test.com
MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from
"mailto:usera at test.com" claiming to be MailScanner has detected a
possible fraud attempt from "mailto:usera at test.com" claiming to be
userA at test.com
123.123.123.123
test.com
MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from
"mailto:userb at test.com" claiming to be MailScanner has detected a
possible fraud attempt from "mailto:userb at test.com" claiming to be
userB at test.com
123.123.123.123
another.com
MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from
"mailto:userf at another.com" claiming to be MailScanner has detected
a possible fraud attempt from "mailto:userf at another.com" claiming
to be userF at another.com
321.321.321.321
another.com
MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from
"mailto:usero at another.com" claiming to be MailScanner has detected
a possible fraud attempt from "mailto:usero at another.com" claiming
to be userO at another.com
321.321.321.321
 
So I want sendmail to receive the email, check against the database
if the user is valid.  If so, then Mailscanner will scan for spam
and virus. Then give back to sendmail to check against the database
for the relay address to send to.
 
Can this be done?

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