OT: Sendmail related...

[Alex Neuman]

Talking to myself here, just found one of the two things I was talking
about.

There's a milter called milter-chkrcpt (found using milter.org) that does a
"call ahead" and rejects the e-mail if there are no valid recipients. I'll
give it a shot.


On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 9:48 PM, Alex Neuman <alex at rtpty.com> wrote:

> Hi list,
>
> I've been googling around and haven't been able to figure out *how* to look
> for the following two things. Feel free to reply off-list if you think it's
> not list-worthy material.
>
> 1. How do I change the "try to deliver for four days and then bounce back
> to the sender" to, say, two days, when using sendmail?
> 2. Can I tell sendmail *not* to accept e-mail for domains that have no MX
> (I know, "bad") or "no MX *and* no A" (not so bad) records in DNS? How about
> with a milter?
>
> The basic premise is that I've recently detected a surge in users that
> don't seem to care about typos or that don't believe in address books. Mail
> gets queued up and they don't have a clue until hours (or days) later that
> they mistyped the domain name.
>
> --
> Alex Neuman van der Hans
> Reliant Technologies
> +507 6781-9505
> +507 202-1525
> alex at rtpty.com
> Skype: alexneuman
>



-- 
Alex Neuman van der Hans
Reliant Technologies
+507 6781-9505
+507 202-1525
alex at rtpty.com
Skype: alexneuman
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