Reject emails to nonexistent addresses?

[Steve Swaney]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> Behalf Of Michele Neylon :: Blacknight Solutions
> Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 11:09 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Reject emails to nonexistent addresses?
>
> > There are a couple of milters.  The one I use is
> > milter-sender.  There is another called milter-ahead that
> > does the call ahead to your Exchange server or other final
> > destination.  milter-sender also does the call ahead.
>
> Is there much difference between them?
>

Yes - very much, One validates the sender the other validates the recipient

> What happens if the sending MTA were is down/unavailable?

Please checkout the web site http://www.milter.info/ for all of the error
codes. I've tested the milter-ahead for most of the possible error
conditions and the all work as advertised.

We are using milter-ahead software with good success on more and more sites.

Steve

Steve Swaney
President
Fortress Systems Ltd.
www.fsl.com
steve.swaney at fsl.com


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