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Subject: Re: [9fans] strange mail problems
From: Richard Miller <9fans@hamnavoe.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 10:05:54 +0000
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> The dns failure is coming from validatesender, which I thought was
> only executed if verifysenderdomain is on in the stmpd.conf.  But
> looking at the source of smtpd, it looks as if validatesender always
> gets executed, regardless of smtpd.conf or the -r option to smtpd.

validatesender is different from verifysenderdomain: it makes an SMTP
connection and sends a "RCPT TO:" command to check whether the sender
email address actually exists.  To turn this off, you have to delete
or rename the /mail/lib/validatesender script.

-- Richard