Simon, > I have amavis sitting in front of our internal mail server using SMTP > sockets to receive and send on the network. It's all working fine > except for one annoyance...
It is a non-recommended setup. Although amavisd-new does provide a fully standards-compliant SMTP server, it lacks refinements of a fully-fledged MTA, such as dealing efficiently with abuse, handling many parallel SMTP sessions, recipient verification, ... > When one of our MX hosts does a recipient callout (to our internal mail > server via amavis), amavis always replies with 250 to an invalid local > address even though the same SMTP session made directly to our internal > mail server would reply with 550. I can only assume that amavis is > doing 'store & forward' and not communicating with the internal mail > server until it has accepted the incoming message. Is this right? Right. This is a duty of a front-end MTA, amavisd-new was never intended to take place of a MTA. > Can amavis do recipient callout before accepting a message? No. Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ AMaViS-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amavis-user AMaViS-FAQ:http://www.amavis.org/amavis-faq.php3 AMaViS-HowTos:http://www.amavis.org/howto/
