Re: valid domain and user

Hi, Paga,

On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 12:01:45PM -0500, Marco Paganini wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 03:17:17PM -0500, [email protected] wrote:
> > Is there functionality in ask that I can enable that checks if the user and 
> > domain of an incoming piece of mail are valid? If not, can I modify the 
> > .forward file to add this functionality?
> 
> The only way to check the validity is to send an email back and wait for a
> reply. Is that what you mean?

IMHO [email protected] wants to reduce the amount of email ASK is sending:
 1. No need to send a check-message when a virus/worm is found.
 2. No need to send a check-message when the sender-address is obvioulsy
    broken.

(2.) is done by the mailserver the moment the foreign mailserver starts
sending the message.  According to the check-results the mail will be
accepted for further delivery or deleted quitely.

(1.) is a delivery-step (before involving ASK).


Merry Xmas, Thomas


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