OK. I have a box that I use as an incoming relay for about 30 or so Exchange servers that all live out in the wild. I run Smarter Mail, Declude, Message Sniffer, INVURIBL, F-Prot and all kinds of good stuff before I pass it along to the Exchange server with SmarterMail domain forwarding.
I am getting my ass kicked by volume because the mail server accepts any address and forwards it along; most of which of course are addresses that don't exist. I'm building a gateway box in the near future, which will help keep the incoming fluff down a bit, I'm sure, but what I really need to do is to implement some kind of valid recipient list. I doubt that I'll be able to LDAP all over God's green earth with any kind of reliability or speed. Since the gateway won't be implemented for a few weeks, I'm been playing with things to get ready for it, namely, how to get valid sender lists from such a disparate group of Exchange servers. So. I patched together this VBscript that exports a list of exchange addresses using LDAP into a text file. It runs as a WinCron job. I created a batch file that uploads it to one of my Cold Fusion servers. That runs as a WinCron job, too. I wrote a Cold Fusion script that looks for these silly text files every so many minutes and then parses the crappy, cluttered thing into a nice clean CSV for me, and now I can do anything I want with it. I imagine that someday I'll use it in conjunction with the gateway, but hey, I have this information right now. What would be the best way to use this information with Declude? Ideally, it should be implemented on a per domain basis, in case I can't get some Exchange servers to play nice with me. Eventually I suppose it will be mandatory, I'm sure, but not right now when I am coming up with best practices, eh? So do I set up each text file for each domain as a separate filter? And then only use it in the applicable per domain junkmail file? Is that the best way to do it? Or am I making Declude work too hard? I would really love any suggestions you might have. Thanks! -- Michael Cummins --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
