[Mimedefang] Validate users before scanning?

Kelson kelson at speed.net
Wed May 4 13:21:36 EDT 2005


David F. Skoll wrote:
> Although nosuchuser at domain.net doesn't exist, the milter is still passed
> it, and it is NOT told by Sendmail that delivery will fail.  Normally,
> this isn't a big deal, but if you're streaming by recipient, it is
> a big deal.

Ah.  Got it.

We only use stream_by_recipient in limited cases, which explains why I 
haven't seen the problem.

> The only workaround is to (also) validate recipients in filter_recipient,
> because if *that* function rejects a recipient, then MIMEDefang is smart
> enough not to add it to @Recipients by the time filter_begin is invoked.

Must file this away for future reference....

-- 
Kelson Vibber
SpeedGate Communications <www.speed.net>



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