[Mimedefang] integrating LDAP lookups into MD

-ray ray at ops.selu.edu
Wed Oct 29 12:07:08 EST 2003


Patrick,

Can you give an example of how you're doing this with LDAP maps?  I'd like
to do it, but don't want to return a "User unknown" SMTP message to assist
the spammer in cleaning bad addresses out of his list.  How are you doing
it?

ray


On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Patrick Morris wrote:

> This is really pretty easy to do within Sendmail itself, using the LDAP 
> map features.  That's what I do here -- dump 'em before they even reach 
> MIMEDefang.  It's cut the load on the boxes down to next to nothing.
> 
> Adam Lanier wrote:
> 
> >Has anyone had any luck integrating LDAP lookups into MD with the goal
> >of verifying whether inbound addresses are valid?
> >
> >We get a tremendous amount of mail using dictionary type adddressing and
> >I'd like to figure out some way to deal with it.
> >
> >I'd really love to see some sample code if anyone wishes to share.



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