Hi all, if anyone is interested in doing some small but very useful development work for DBMail: Please see Bug 0000010 in the bugtracker (http://dbmail.org/bugtracker/bug_view_advanced_page.php?bug_id=0000010).
It's a feature request for a daemon which SendMail can connect to check if an email-address is valid, without using dbmail-smtp or dbmail-lmtp first. It's more or less like Postfix ability to use SQL lookup to check the validity of an address, with the difference that in this case it's a daemon which performs the lookup. The daemon can be pretty simple. It listens for a request, and when it gets one, it looks up the address in the aliases table, and returns if the address is valid or not. The protocol is described in a file that is attached to the bug report. I see two ways of solving this: 1. make a very simple daemon using Perl or Python, which searches directly in the database. 2. make a daemon which uses the database functions we already have. The last solution requires some more thinking, but is a lot more robust wrt to future changes. Ilja
