On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 10:12:45AM +0000, Tony Finch said:
> On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, Philip Hazel wrote:
> > On Sun, 6 Mar 2005, Marc MERLIN wrote:
> >
> > > I've always assumed that SMTP callbacks (yeah, they're callouts now, sorry
> > > :) came from Philip in Exim.
> > >
> > > Is this correct?
> >
> > I don't know. Callbacks were introduced in Exim 3.20 in November 2000;
> > callforwards did not arrive till Exim 4, just over a year later.
> > (Strictly, callbacks were "released" in a testing release called 3.168.
> > I don't have details of its release date. 3.16 was released in Auguest
> > 2000, so it was sometime between August and November, if it matters that
> > much.)
> >
> > You'll need to search for any evidence of anyone else doing this any
> > earlier.
>
> AFAIK the only other major MTA that does it is Postfix, and it introduced
> it in version 2.1 last year (though it was available in the June 2003
> snapshot). Posfix didn't even reject invalid local recipients until 2002.
There is also (finally) a sendmail milter to do this.
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