On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 04:58:53PM +0000, A.smith wrote:
> Ok, thanks. I had thought that the verify was to verify whether the recpient
> email address existed, but actually its to verify whether the email address
> is deliverable?
What does it mean for an address to "exist", other than that the address is
deliverable?
Specifically, when Exim "verifies" an address, what it's actually testing is
that a router accepts the address (which is not quite the same thing as
"deliverable").
> I think you are telling me that if the user is a catch all
> then the any address to the domain is deliverable and therefore the
> verify=recipient is doing what its meant to do.
Yup.
> I suppose the only alternative is to turn of the catch all behaviour?
It's entirely up to you. What do you (as the mail administrator) want to
happen when someone tries to send mail to somemadeupname@????
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Dave Evans
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