Re: Sender Address Verification (SAV)

Brent Spencer <[email protected]> Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:25:45 -0800 (PST)
Newsgroups gmane.mail.spam.tmda.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Stephen,

Thanks for the quick response.  Would be nice to have something like
tmda-ofmipd for this. ;-)


Thanks again,


Brent Spencer
XsiteDesigns

> On Tue, February 26, 2008 3:59 pm, Brent Spencer wrote:
>> I am encountering a problem when using TMDA's dated addresses to send to
>> recipients that use Sender Address Verification to confirm the validity
>> of
>> a sender's email address.  When the remote SMTP server connects to my
>> SMTP
>> server and tries to verify one of the dated addresses (e.g.
>> <[email protected]>).  Does anyone know
>> how to configure their SMTP server to allow for a successfuly
>> verification
>> of a TMDA dated address?  Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> Yeah, that's part of the reason I turned SAV off on my receiving SMTP
> server. That, and a lot of people refuse to validate even legitimate
> addresses (e.g. outbound only email addresses at companies.) I kinda
> recommend against anyone using it these days.
>
> Anyway, the exact mechanism to solve your problem depends on which SMTP
> server you're using. You could probably do it using a wildcard in your
> /etc/aliases file (if such things are supported), or in whatever recipient
> table your server supports, or some kind of plugin, or an inbound SMTP
> proxy that just does this then forwards connections to your real server,
> or ...
>
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