[exim-dev] [Bug 855] Sender-callout-Verification should use …

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Subject: [exim-dev] [Bug 855] Sender-callout-Verification should use VRFY not RCPT TO
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http://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=855




--- Comment #5 from bugzilla@??? 2009-06-21 11:27:27 ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> (In reply to comment #3)


> There are many cases (as described above) where this type of verification is
> perfectly valid (or indeed VRFY is). Switching, however, to VRFY which is
> largely obsolete nowadays, would be a mistake.
>
> Graeme
>


Thank you.

My counter would be:

If VRFY has been disabled by many sites, and if both RCPT TO and VRFY get you
DNSBL'd for doing either of the verifications with foreign sources...

That leaves only 'internal' handshaking between 'friendly' servers. And, we're
back to VRFY, which was designed for that purpose.

Even if, as you suggest, VRFY would get us listed, clearly RCPT TO already gets
us listed and is, therefore, useless as coded.

-john


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