Re: User validation before scanning the mail?

Lampa wrote:
> Hello,
>
> use shupp toaster (www.shupp.org/toaster), implement patch chkuser
> (http://www.interazioni.it/opensource/chkuser/) or there are other
> mechanism (for example using badmailto or oposite - using only valid
> emails - eg create list of all emails you have).
>   
i.e. this is such a fundamental problem that it must be dealt with at
the Qmail level instead of within Qmail-Scanner. With the overhead of
running perl, AVs and (especially) SpamAssassin, it just isn't
appropriate to do this within Qmail-Scanner. Doing it within Qmail
itself (i.e. a patch) will remove a huge amount of traffic from even
getting to Qmail-Scanner.

I'd also suggest looking at the RECIPIENTS extension on
http://www.fehcom.de/qmail/qmail.html

-- 
Cheers

Jason Haar
Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd.
Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417
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