Re: adns & ask

Hi Gour,

On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 09:42:23AM +0100, Gour wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> After some time in trying to use tmda on another server, I'm moved my mail
> setup to friend's server and I'm back to a-s-k :-)
> 
> I use a-s-k under vmailmgr accounts and would like to suggest to my friend to
> install adns & adns-python (the server Sparc running Gentoo), so I'm interested
> how does a-s-k behave in companion with adns?

It's supposed to work with adns. 

> I saw few posts with some problems, but I'm not sure whether the problem was
> with adns or pydns or dns, or the problem is with a-s-k itself.

Well, in the worst case, you won't have the SMTP validation, but the
challenge mechanism should still work.

> Any new feature regarding email validation in the upcoming a-s-k?

There is not much else that can be done to validate remote emails, except for
what ASK already does: To send a challenge. The SMTP validation feature works
in *some* cases, but I've had some reports of people being "blacklisted"
because paranoia is widespread, and certain sysadmins think the "probe" used
by ASK is some kind of spambot.

Regards,
Paga

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