[Mimedefang] integrating LDAP lookups into MD

[Patrick Morris]

In my case, I *do* return a "User Unknown" error.  I'm more concerned 
with valid feedback going to legitimate senders who type an address 
wrong than I am with whether a spammer finds out they've got a bad 
address in their database.

-ray wrote:

>
> 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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