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Default email address in sendmail?



Don Levey wrote:

> It's also possible (though tedious) for someone to get a reasonable
> approximation of the company employee directory by hitting th email server,
> unless that company uses nonsense email addresses. 

Only if the company is not smart enough to disable VRFY and to change
the error code for unknown addresses to OK and just silently drop the email.


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