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Re: Programmers with network engineering skills
From: Jeroen van Aart <jeroen () mompl net>
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 23:50:54 -0700
Joe Greco wrote:
The ideal world contains a mix of techniques.
Yes and copying parts of relevant code of an MTA could be one.
You cannot just blindly leave it to the MTA to decide what's valid. Along that path lies madness. How do you pass the address to the MTA? Don't do it as a system() call unless you want someone to own yourbox with a semicolon.
Well, the whole world can pass whatever it wants to an MTA, it's supposed to be listening on internet facing port 25 all the time, that's it's mean reason of existence. An MTA is particularly well suited to take any kind of abuse, because that's exactly what it's expecting.
Unless in cases such as Owen mentioned I'd say it's a pretty good solution. The madness to me lies in making your own email validating code...
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- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills, (continued)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Owen DeLong (Mar 12)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Michael Thomas (Mar 12)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills William Herrin (Mar 12)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Owen DeLong (Mar 12)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Jeroen van Aart (Mar 12)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Owen DeLong (Mar 12)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Joe Greco (Mar 12)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Mark Andrews (Mar 12)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Joe Greco (Mar 13)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Jimmy Hess (Mar 16)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Jeroen van Aart (Mar 12)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Aled Morris (Mar 13)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Joe Greco (Mar 13)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Steve Bertrand (Mar 13)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Jeroen van Aart (Mar 16)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Keegan Holley (Mar 12)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Paul Graydon (Mar 12)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Owen DeLong (Mar 12)
- Re: Programmers with network engineering skills Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo (Mar 13)
- Email Integration / Account Migration Mike Rae (Mar 13)
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