[Mimedefang] Validating Exchange addresses (was: calling action_bounce() for viruses)

[Kenneth Porter]

--On Thursday, October 02, 2003 3:04 PM -0400 "Kevin A. McGrail"
<kmcgrail at pccc.com> wrote:

> I read it to mean that you should make it a Perl Module and then just the
> hooks to the module get added to MD though in re-reading, you are correct
> that he was unclear.

That would be one way to do it. My thinking is that the utility isn't limited
to sendmail, but could be useful for other MTA's (postfix, qmail) needing
Exchange validation. I have a peer running postfix who could use such a thing.

In terms of plumbing, the package could either be a library, requiring some
kind of linkage system in the client, or a daemon, requiring some client code
to connect and proxy the query.

Note that MD itself takes the latter approach, as a milter and a suite of
daemons.

Geoff, is your code publicly available? If you continue to maintain the core
logic, others can wrap it in a more generalized access system.