[Mimedefang] Verifying mailbox...
Jim McCullars
jim at info.uah.edu
Tue Jul 6 17:09:57 EDT 2004
On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
> So, my question now is, from within mimedefang, is there some way I
> can have it validate a recipient's address PRIOR to attempting
> delivery? Like somehow contacting the spool and see if that user
> exists, and if not simply bounce the message before it even gets onto
> our network.
The "md_check_against_smtp_server" function in mimedefang-filter will
do what you want, assuming that the downstream spool will indeed return a
"unknown user" message when it gets the "RCPT To:" command.
HTH...
Jim McCullars
University of Alabama in Huntsville
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