Re: [exim] Verification Question

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Author: Marc Perkel
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To: Renaud Allard
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Verification Question


Renaud Allard wrote:
> Marc Perkel wrote:
>
>> Renaud Allard wrote:
>>
>>> Marc Perkel wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Trying to figure out how to do this. I want to do something like a
>>>> recipient verify but not verify the recipient. I want to attempty to
>>>> verify a fixed email address that should be an address that doesn't
>>>> exist so that I can tell if the recipient server takes wildcard addresses.
>>>>
>>>> What I'm trying to do is figure whick of my customers allows wildcard
>>>> emails. But I can figure out how to test for a fixed email address
>>>> rather than the sender or recipient.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> >From exim docs:
>>> http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.66/doc/html/spec_html/ch40.html#SECTcallver
>>>
>>> verify = sender/callout,random
>>>
>>>
>> OK - I'm trying to wrap my brain around this and have a headache. Anyone
>> have an example of using the random option to prevent excess callbacks?
>>
>>
>
> I used it quite much for sender verifies till I got blacklisted by
> conducive.org for doing so ;)
> It really prevents you from doing lookups for domains that accept
> everything.
>


I'm confused - this looks like something that would reduce verification
lookups. How is it that it caused you to get blacklisted?