dccj
09-12-2004, 02:47 PM
Hi!
I need to build a box to preprocess incoming email for an Exchange Server. All I need to it to do is to check if the recipient is on a list, forward it if it is, return an NDR if it isn't. The problem is that the gets thousands of spam emails everyday for recipients that aren't valid. But due to the nature of the business, an NDR needs to be sent in case it is from a legitimate customer who typed in the name wrong. The load on the Exchange server is large enough that if I could remove this part of it, it would be able to do it's job.
The OS flavor isn't important. Something small would be ideal, since it will probably end up on an older machine. It needs to read the valid recipient list from a file. And it needs to either forward the email to a local server if the recipient is valid, or generate an NDR if it isn't. It won't store any emails (no local mailboxes).
What I'm looking for is some pointers on what to use (OS and mail server) and perhaps some pointers on configuring the indicated mail server. If this was already answered somewhere, then a link to that would be great, too!
TIA!
Darryl
I need to build a box to preprocess incoming email for an Exchange Server. All I need to it to do is to check if the recipient is on a list, forward it if it is, return an NDR if it isn't. The problem is that the gets thousands of spam emails everyday for recipients that aren't valid. But due to the nature of the business, an NDR needs to be sent in case it is from a legitimate customer who typed in the name wrong. The load on the Exchange server is large enough that if I could remove this part of it, it would be able to do it's job.
The OS flavor isn't important. Something small would be ideal, since it will probably end up on an older machine. It needs to read the valid recipient list from a file. And it needs to either forward the email to a local server if the recipient is valid, or generate an NDR if it isn't. It won't store any emails (no local mailboxes).
What I'm looking for is some pointers on what to use (OS and mail server) and perhaps some pointers on configuring the indicated mail server. If this was already answered somewhere, then a link to that would be great, too!
TIA!
Darryl