> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:assp-user- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin > Sent: Friday, 23 February 2007 3:44 p.m. > To: Questions and Answers for users of ASSP Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy > Subject: Re: [Assp-user] Basic questions > > Dave Watkins wrote: > >>> Will I need to setup LDAP on ASSP to validate that incoming mail is > >>> addressed to a valid user? I want to block these at SMTP to save > >>> bandwidth, there seems to be some indication in the docs that ASSP > >>> would initiate an SMTP connection to Mailmarshal to check if the > >>> recipient is valid before it responds to the sending SMTP server > >>> with an OK but I'm unsure if this is the case or not. Basically how > >>> does ASSP validate incoming mail is going to a real user? > >> You can use a flat file (export it from Mailmarshal) or LDAP. > > > > LDAP it is, I was hoping not to have to but that's just cos I'm lazy > :). > > Flat file exports will have to go through a firewall which is just > > messy. Although in saying that, can the 2 co-exist? I'm not sure our > > mail enabled public folders will come through from an LDAP query so > if I > > could add those to the flat file and have the rest come from LDAP > that > > would be perfect > > Flatfile takes prefidence over LDAP when both are used. > If you have eventsinks that use specific email addresses you have to > place them in the flatfile. > > Public folders work perfectly with LDAP btw, you just have to specify > the root of the domain. > > 'LDAP Root container' > "DC=domain,DC=com" > > 'LDAP Filter for Local Adresses' > "proxyaddresses=smtp:EMAILADDRESS"
Brilliant, that should resolve the last problem, now I just need to get my head around how the routing works when you're not using a second SMTP Virtual Server, but there's plenty of documentation on that for me to read through on that one. > > The performance hit from LDAP is negligible, ASSP caches the results so > it's not like it does a query for each message. I'm not sure how long > it > caches them though, I'll have to rip into the code to document that > one. We're on a fairly small site so I don't think the lookups will hurt at all > If you need further pointers let me know. Nope, that should do it, thanks Dave ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Assp-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-user
