[Mimedefang] OT: Validing email address in Exchange

[Ray Parish]

These are all great perl examples, but wouldn't it be more beneficial to
have sendmail do the ldap queries as oppossed to haveing the queries done in
mimedefang?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David F. Skoll" <dfs at roaringpenguin.com>
To: <mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com>
Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 7:03 PM
Subject: Re: [Mimedefang] OT: Validing email address in Exchange


> On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Graham Dunn wrote:
>
> > Here's a perl script that works in the shell, but I don't have the
> > time right now to integrate it into being run from mimedefang. If
> > anyone wants to help out by adjusting the "die" messages ( I vaguely
> > remember David saying something about how they were a no-no in
> > slaves), or telling me where my perl is brutally inefficient, please
> > do.
>
> To integrate into MIMEDefang, wrap it into a function you can call
> from filter_recipient, and replace the die() calls to:
>
> return ('TEMPFAIL', "Description of LDAP problem");
>
> Example:
>
> return ('TEMPFAIL', "Unable to bind to LDAP server: $!");
>
> (I'm not sure if "$!" is what's needed; maybe some kind of
> $ldap_result->error() thing instead.)
>
> Regards,
>
> David.
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