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Re: Verifying incoming addresses

1997-09-04 00:49:57
On Wed, 3 Sep 1997 11:21:37 -0700 (PDT), Frank Evan Perdicaro
<frank(_at_)dsea(_dot_)com> wrote:
I am thinking of using procmail to verify the return address of 
each incoming mail message.  I could write a script that 
procmail calls for each From line.  If nslookup fails on the 
return address, send the message directly to the trash can.

Eli the Bearded has written a FAQ on user+plus(_at_)host addressing which
incidentally covers this to some depth in an appendix. Check it out. 
<http://www.netusa.net/~eli/faqs/addressing.html>

Short version: Timothy's pointer to Sendmail is a better idea :-)

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