Victor Duchovni put forth on 12/1/2010 4:25 PM: > On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 04:18:11PM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> If more than that, for many reasons, I recommend using recipient address >> verification instead of LDAP lookups, assuming you have decent spam >> filtering techniques on your Postfix gateway, which is a requirement in >> today's world anyway. > > No, LDAP lookups are simpler and cheaper than SMTP probes. The Postfix > LDAP driver works with MSFT AD via simple password binds. Code for SASL > binds (e.g. for folks who want to use GSSAPI) should be available in > the 2.8 release if all goes well.
Are LDAP queries still simpler and cheaper once all recipient addresses are cached in $data_directory/verify_cache? Do you disagree with my other 4 points Viktor? You know this stuff far better than I, so if I'm wrong on the other points I'd like to be corrected, so as not to make the same recommendations in the future. Thanks. -- Stan
