Preventing backscatter with sendmail

[Glenn Steen]

2009/1/17 Paul Welsh <paul.welsh.3 at googlemail.com>:
>> Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 10:40:21 +0100
>> From: shuttlebox <shuttlebox at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: Preventing backscatter with sendmail
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 1:56 AM, Paul Welsh
>> <paul at welshfamily.com> wrote:
>> > I've been googling and from what I can see I have the
>> following options:
>> >
>> > milter-ahead - www.milter.info/sendmail/milter-ahead/
>> > Mailfromd
>> > scam-backscatter - www.elandsys.com/scam/scam-backscatter/
>> > access.db
>> > ldap lookups
>>
>> This one is also popular:
>>
>> http://smfs.sourceforge.net/smf-sav.html
>>
> Hi Peter, thanks for that.
>
> I realise too that mailfromd doesn't really do what I want.  It does sender
> verification but only local recipient verification by the looks of things.
> I'm not bothered about sender verification, only recipient.
Ok. You noticed that smf-sav does do recipient verification? And that
you don't need do sender verification with it to have the recipient
verification?

> Sorry, sent the wrong subject out last time.  Here's the right one to aid
> anyone searching threads in future.
>
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