Re: [exim] stop myself from propagating invalid addresses

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Author: David Woodhouse
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To: Dan Jacobson
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] stop myself from propagating invalid addresses
On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 03:45 +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> What is the best way for me to prevent myself from accidentally
> sending mail to e.g.,
> To: BIGLIST@???
> Cc: OTHERLIST@??? <--forgot to add ".org"!
> I want all addresses valid before any of them get a copy, lest I cause
> responders also Cc'ing invalid addresses. I use smarthost, connecting
> modem to run queue. Of course I only want to verify outgoing messages.


Experiment with 'require verify=recipient' in a RCPT ACL to just check
for sane domain names. Try 'require verify=recipient/callout/use_sender'
if you really want to verify the localpart too. I probably wouldn't
advocate that though.

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dwmw2