Setting gateway

mikea mikea at mikea.ath.cx
Fri Dec 7 20:28:03 GMT 2007


On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 11:46:02AM -0800, Scott Silva wrote:

> The best solution is to check the incoming mails for a valid destination, 
> and drop those that are non-existent. If you blindly accept everything, you 
> are now responsible to figure out how to pick out the typos from the 
> forgeries, or never notify the people with the typos that their mail didn't 
> go through. Because if you bounce all the bad recipients, you will get 
> blacklisted. It is just a matter of time.

I certainly can't argue. Got a sendmail ruleset to share? I've got 
LDAP access and would _love_ to use it profitably, and I'll bet a 
*good* (beer|ale|porter|stout) I'm far from the only one.

-- 
Mike Andrews, W5EGO
mikea at mikea.ath.cx
Tired old sysadmin 


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