Re: [Exim] how to check remote recipient

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Author: Alberto Tablado
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To: 'exim-users'
Subject: Re: [Exim] how to check remote recipient
El vie, 30-01-2004 a las 10:20, Tim Jackson escribió:
> Hi Alberto, on 30 Jan 2004 00:00:35 +0100 you wrote:
>
> [Exim front-ending an Exchange server, only accepting valid users]
> > > verify = recipient
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > This only checks if the recipient's address is routable. If you want to
> > test if the mailbox exists, try verify = recipient/callout.
>
> Except that on all the Exchange machines I've seen, they don't check
> recipients at SMTP time, instead accepting all recipients and then
> generating bounces as necessary (braindead). So doing callouts won't,


Thanks, M$.

> unfortunately, achieve anything useful. There is, however, a recipe in the
> Exim cookbook to check the list of Windows recipients via LDAP. That might
> be worth a look, though I've not yet had an opportunity to try it myself.
>
> Reference:
>
> http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.30/doc/html/C043.txt
>
> Tim
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