Smtp vrfy and router variance

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Question about SMTP VRFY and the router task.

I have a Domino environment that for normal mail routing is using the full-name only lookup. To clarify, if I send an email to tony@domain.com, it will not be delivered since my internet address field in the Domino directory is tony.frazier@domain.com. Same for frazier@domain.com, no delivery. Only tony.frazier@domain.com will be delivered. This is working as expected.

I am now testing a spam gateway product that is wanting to perform smtp vrfy to validate email addresses. I have enabled smtp vrfy successfully and all is working okay. But, I have found that the smtp vrfy process will validate accounts using not only the internet address field, but any combination that the Domino directory has for a person. For example, smtp vrfy validates tony@domain.com, frazier@domain.com, along with tony.frazier@domain.com.

My question: is there a way to configure the smtp vrfy process to validate the same way as the router task is configured?

Thanks,

Tony

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Subject: smtp vrfy and router variance

I have the exact same problem in my Domino environment. I can add some extra scenarios to the problem. When you have more than one domain in your environment, the SMTP vrfy process accept the users adress for all domains. example: If my email is thomas@domain1.com then the vrfy process also validates and accept thomas@domain2.com even if the address does not exist in the directory. The vrfy process returns the adress from domain1 - thomas@domain1.com - as the verified adress.

print from a telnet session using vrfy:

vrfy thomas@domain2.com

250 “Thomas Lauritsen/Dom1” thomas@domain1.com

I’m like Tony very interested in answers to the problem ?

Thanks, Thomas

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Subject: smtp vrfy and router variance

just bumping this post…

Has anyone had any experience with Domino’s smtp vrfy?

Are there any notes.ini settings that effect the return values of Domino’s smtp vrfy?

Thanks again,

Tony