Can qmail reject invalid mail adresses?

[Arno Slatius]

Hello,

I got a qmail machine set up to run two smtp daemons; one to the
outside world and one to the inside world (our intranet).

On the internal smtp daemon I'd like qmail to refuse the receiving of
non-exsistent mail adresses because so people can't type the name of
their colleague properly. Of course such a message would be bounced,
but i'd like to see it being refused for sending.

The question of course is: is this possible and -if so- how?

Thanks
Arno Slatius

[Dave Sill]

a.sl...@12move.nl (Arno Slatius) writes:

> The question of course is: is this possible and -if so- how?

Stock qmail can't do that because it would violate the security
model. I suggest you allow the system to accept the mail and return a
bounce message. There might be patch available to add that behaviour,
but it's a bad idea because its violates the security model and might
introduce other problems, beside the general support headache that
comes with all patches.

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