On 05-Jan-99 06:04:01, Russell Nelson wrote something about "Re: wanted: patch to
reject mail if envelope sender isn't valid domain". I just couldn't help replying to
it, thus:
Yes (nods to johnl), but I'm trying to convince Dan that it's a good
idea. I think the increase in r
Eric Smith writes:
Has anyone written a patch for Qmail 1.0.3 to reject mail if envelope sender
domain can't be resolved?
Yes (nods to johnl), but I'm trying to convince Dan that it's a good
idea. I think the increase in reliability (rejecting mail which you
*know* cannot accept a bounce
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Why not break the smtpd into two parts, the way qmail's pop3d
separates auth from mail access. The first part handles everything
before DATA, and this can be as simple as a shell or perl script.
This is where you can attempt to resolve addresses or do rbl, or
This may not be the perfect solution: you must use the qmail-users
mechanism. First, put the dnsfq program in /var/qmail/bin (it comes
with qmail; it is used by config but is not installed) Then in each
user's .qmail file put
|dnsfq `echo $SENDER|awk -F@ '{print $NF}'`
./Mailbox
(I am assuming
I asked:
Has anyone written a patch for Qmail 1.0.3 to reject mail if envelope sender
domain can't be resolved?
Russell Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] replied:
Yes (nods to johnl), but I'm trying to convince Dan that it's a good
idea. I think the increase in reliability (rejecting mail which you
Has anyone written a patch for Qmail 1.0.3 to reject mail if envelope sender
domain can't be resolved?
Funny you should ask, not 15 minutes ago I upgraded to 1.0.3 using
such a patch. You want the patches from Jonathan Bradshaw mentioned
on www.qmail.org.
The patches do some other stuff as
