Querying other SMTP server for valid addresses?

[Mike Bacher]

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Steve Swaney wrote:

> Yes, there is a way. If you use sendmail, you might want to look at
> milter-ahead.
>
>         http://www.milter.info/milter-ahead/
>
> I quote from the web site:
>
> "This Sendmail milter (mail filter) allows a gateway mail server to
> call-ahead to a relay or internal mail store before accepting mail for
> recipients of a message. Think of it as a lazy man's LDAP. It could also be
> used by fallback MX servers to verify recipients with the primary MX."

So, what does it do exactly -- connect to your backend mailhubs via SMTP and try a RCPT TO
command to see if the user is valid?

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