Rick Widmer wrote: > > I was under the impression your interest is based on Robin Bowes > suggestion about the validrcptto.cdb patch, so it is "does this mailbox > exist." We may as well make it easy, it should be a popular function.
Yes - having this functionality would obviate the need to maintain the validrcptto list. Any tool that wants to check the existence of a mailbox for a given email address on a given host would just need to telnet to port 89 and supply a command like "exists [EMAIL PROTECTED]". An "OK" responose would mean it does exist. It should not quite automatically to allow the checking of several addresses in sequence, e.g: connect exists [EMAIL PROTECTED] exists [EMAIL PROTECTED] exists [EMAIL PROTECTED] quit Does vpopmaild fork? i.e. Does it allow multiple connections? I guess it uses tcpserver to run it so tcpserver will do all the work. Cool. R. > p.s. I got a kick out of this: "with a working vpopmaild service it > becomes possible to write a program like vqadmin or qmailadmin which > does all of its work using vpopmaild commands." That's _exactly_ what > vpopmaild was written to allow. I couldn't have said it better. I look forward to seeing a php/perl/python/whatever replacement for both vqadmin and qmailadmin. R.
