Re: [Exim] verify=sender/callout performance?

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Autor: John Dalbec
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Para: Tony Finch, Exim Users Mailing List
Assunto: Re: [Exim] verify=sender/callout performance?
Tony Finch wrote:
> "Alan J. Flavell" <flavell@???> wrote:
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>>On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, John Dalbec wrote:
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>>>The documentation mentions that verify=sender/callout is a
>>>performance hit.
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>>Sure - you've got to do practically all the work of setting up a
>>fresh mail transaction.
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> Unless there's a cache hit.
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>>And many an MTA will do no more than confirm an address as
>>syntactically correct, irrespective of whether it really exists,
>>which makes the callout a waste of time and effort.
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> That's what verify = sender/callout,random is for.


Reading doc/NewStuff it's not clear whether the correct syntax is
"sender/callout,random" or "sender/callout=random". Exim seems to
accept both?
John

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>>BTW, callout can also block mail from envelope senders whose mail
>>domain never responds.
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> If you are inclined towards charity in this case then use
> verify = sender/callout,defer_ok
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> Tony.
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