Re: Recipient Validation Design Opinions

2009-04-27 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, On Fri, 24.04.2009 at 08:47:00 -0400, Mario Vega mario.j.v...@gmail.com wrote: The two internal servers use several different domains and accept a variety of different name formats. In addition, some users have one or more aliases. Furthermore, only the primary address is published

Re: Recipient Validation Design Opinions

2009-04-27 Thread Bob Beck
If you are able to weed out illegitimate recipients, this may go a long way to reduce spam, or at least it did for us. Looking the email address up in LDAP is *much* cheaper than doing a call-out to the backend server(s). Greylisting helps us, too, but seems to cost mail from broken servers

Recipient Validation Design Opinions

2009-04-24 Thread Mario Vega
Hello, We are putting together an OpenBSD-based border email server to replace an aging Linux box. On the current system, Postfix performs a call ahead to two internal boxes for recipient validation. I'm interested in recommendations on how to perform validation with the base sendmail.