[Mimedefang] Re: calling action_bounce() for viruses

[Geoff Thornton]

On Wednesday, 01 Oct 2003, Jason Radford wrote:
 
> What are the advantages to using ldap in mimedefang as opposed to just
> using it in sendmail's ldap maps?

Without going to much into the technical details, with Microsoft Exchange
Server's LDAP structure, you have to worry about a recipient's primary email
address and secondary email addresses; you also have hidden recipients,
distribution lists, and public folders, all of which have various
implications in validating email addresses.  There are various LDAP search
parameters for testing each kind of recipient, and you need to log on as a
special user to even see hidden recipients.

I figured that was complex enough to warrant specialized code.  (Not to
mention cleaning up and re-initializing stale LDAP connections...)