> Dirk Alboth wrote/schrieb/scribsit:
>
> Here's what I do in similar cases, though it may not be applicable
> to your case: If you have a Samba server, you can get ident info
> from the smbstatus command.
Good idea. I actually did also think of this but in our situation one
need not necessarily be connected to the Samba server.
> > However, I'd like to bounce the mail if the identd-server is not
> > running on the other side (and hence $TCPREMOTEINFO will be empty).
> > This however seems hard to do with a wrapper.
>
> Not at all. If a shell script offends thee, take a look at the rblsmtpd
> code.
Good point. You mean Russell Nelson's MAPS RBL patch, I think. I've
overlooked it. This is similar to the environment variable approach I
also considered.
Thanks for your help.
Best regards,
Dirk