Marc Perkel wrote:
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> Renaud Allard wrote:
>> Marc Perkel wrote:
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>>> Renaud Allard wrote:
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>>>> Marc Perkel wrote:
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>>>>> 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?
>
This is a rather old story that can be searched in the archives. To be
short, I was blacklisted because I (obviously) used a non existing
recipient address and the domain had quite strict policies about this
kind of behavior. But this is quite OT.
