How to check for existing mail accounts?

Johnny Stork lists at openenterprise.ca
Fri Mar 28 21:55:26 GMT 2008


its sendmail

Kevin Miller wrote:
> Johnny Stork wrote:
>   
>> I have noticed a large increase in the amount of spam coming in to MS
>> (latest) running on CentOS 5 and many are coming into non-existent
>> email accounts. Is there a check that can be done for the existence
>> of an account first, and then if non-existent, block even before any
>> scanning is done, let alone processing through MS.
>>
>> Thanks for any suggestions that anyone can give
>>     
>
> What MTA are you using?  You can run recipeint verification on sendmail
> via milters, and I'm sure Postfix has similar functionality...
>
> ...Kevin
>   


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