Re: [courier-users] perlfilter questions

This is a discussion on Re: [courier-users] perlfilter questions within the Courier-Imap forums, part of the Mail Servers and Related category; On Apr 4, 2005 1:15 PM, Bowie Bailey <Bowie_Bailey@buc.com> wrote: > I would like to ...


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Old 04-04-2005
Binand Sethumadhavan
 
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Default Re: [courier-users] perlfilter questions

On Apr 4, 2005 1:15 PM, Bowie Bailey <Bowie_Bailey@buc.com> wrote:
> I would like to be able to reject invalid users from my mailserver, but I
> don't want to add hundreds of users and .courier files. I was considering
> writing a simple perlfilter to check the usernames of any incoming email to
> this domain. Can I reject individual recipients from a filter? As I


I had a ditto system sometime ago - only the servers were sendmail.
What I did was to write a Milter on the front server that would check
on the back server for users via a SMTP connection using VRFY, and
cache the results for a configurable amount of time (mine was 6 hours,
worked well).

Maybe you could do the same with a courierfilter.

Binand


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