[PLUG] Re: sendmail virtusertable wildcard question

[Sandy Herring]

On Sun, 11 Sep 2005, Matt Alexander wrote: 
> keith morse wrote:
> >Sandy Herring wrote:
> >>I'm getting ready to handle my own MX. On my server I'm running sendmail
> >>8.13.1. I need to be able to receive mail to sandy_<foo>@herring.org for
> >>any value for <foo> (e.g. sandy_foo at herring.org, sandy_bar at herring.org,
> >>etc. should be "Sender ok") and have it delivered to user `sandy'. But I
> >>don't want to allow dictionary attacks (e.g. red at herring.org should be
> >>"User unknown"). I've got over 100 addresses of the form sandy_<foo> for
> >>which receipt needs to happen. Any time I've had to supply an address to
> >>a web vendor, I've used sandy_vendorDomain at herring.org so that I can
> >>track address misuse.
> >>
> >
> >
> >It's been awhile since I've done Sendmail, but...
> >
> >unless you need to support virtual domains or unless you're determined 
> >to do this via virtual tables, I'd accomplish this with aliases
> 
> 
> Is it too late to talk you into using Postfix?

Of the alternatives, postfix is tempting. But there's a nice milter for
sendmail I'd like to implement once I have everything else working:

    http:/nspasm.org/

Sandy
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