This one time, at band camp, Andrew Miehs said: > > This argument seems to becoming a religious discussion regarding > point 2. - Accepting mails for a domain before know whether the > person really exists. > > The mail protocol still allows for this. > > Maybe this is something that should at some stage be considered bad > practice? It is already strongly discouraged. > Many small companies have this problem, ie: protection your MS > Exchange Server behind a postfix server... How do you want them ALL to > fix this? There are unfortunately no - out of the box scripts to > query your exchange server and fill your mail server configs. There are plenty of ways to do this - exim can do recipient callout verification. Sendmail, postfix, and exim at least can query the LDAP interface that AD provides. There are other ways of doing this statitcally as well, like grabbing a list of valid usernames once every so often. Having a stupid backend is no excuse for being a stupid frontend. Take care, -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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