Quick Sendmail access question

Julian Field jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Wed Feb 23 18:31:20 GMT 2005


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What version of Exchange are you using? If it's 2003 then there is a
very easy way of solving this problem.

David C.M. Weber wrote:

>For further clarification:  I'm already in a working environment. I'm
>looking at another way to "skin the cat" on only accepting email for
>valid MS Exchange users.  I'm retrieving them successfully via HTTP, and
>attempting to create a "valid-users" for relaying through sendmail.
>
>Similar to this MAQ entry:
>http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/serve/cache/270.html
>But I'm not capturing any LDAP information, just username at domain.com
>
>The reason I started down this road, is because I had been blocking
>former employees through the access database by adding a
>"old.employee at domain.com                REJECT" entry.  I was attempting
>to reverse the logic of the file, by rejecting everyone, and only
>allowing set individuals to be relayed through the sendmail box to the
>MS Exchange endpoint.
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