Postfix and real time integration

[Jure Pe_ar]

On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 10:33:18 +0100
Paul Dekkers <Paul.Dekkers at surfnet.nl> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> We're using postfix to feed cyrus (over LMTP) but we're missing the 
> real-time integration like people described for sendmail and exim. To 
> circumvene this I wrote a small perl script that creates a list of users 
> and puts these in a file used by the local_recipients_map. It isn't 
> always in sync (since I run the script only daily for now), but at least 
> it prevents mail for unknown users to be scanned for virusses, spam, fed 
> to cyrus and then bounced... (We would scan about 10 times more mail 
> without this map! :-S)
> 
> Is there a better way to do this? 

Sure it is. Have user accounts in mysql/ldap and point local_recipient_maps
there.


What I'd like to see for "real time integration" is a policyd for postfix
that would check the quota status of a certain account, so postfix could
reject mail immediately.


-- 

Jure Pečar
http://jure.pecar.org/

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