Re: [Assp-user] Limiting connections problem

[Doug T. <dtr...@hf...>]

> <snip> This would cause a significant increase in traffic and work for 
> hMailserver & ClamAV for nothing.
>
> However, this type of problem would only occur if you weren't using Local 
> Address Validation in ASSP.  Since you are, this isn't an issue for you.

OK I understand where you were coming from.  ASSP's implementation of 
recipient validation is something that works so well and saves the server so 
much that I assume everyone is using it.  If not, they should.  Many 
overworked email servers can be saved by simply putting ASSP or some SMTP 
gateway in front to reject invalid recipients, but those protections require 
knowledge of the valid users one way or another.

> Merak MTA has a built-in LDAP server that is supposed to synchronize with 
> the user list in the mail server.  Unfortunately, this doens't include any 
> domain aliases, so the user list ends up being incomplete.

IMail is in a similar boat and by using Active Directory we can't even use 
prewritten scripts to load the aliases to IMail's LDAP, so we maintain the 
text file for those aliases and lists.  Fairly easy to script, but also 
stays very static in our case so can easily be maintained by hand if needed.

Thanks,

Doug