[ctw] Re: Keeping EIMS/ASSP user data sync'd?

  • From: TR Shaw <tshaw@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: ctw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 19:33:14 -0400

I have a set of scripts that dump addresses into a flat file for ASSP directly 
from EIMS if that would help.

Tom

On Aug 20, 2011, at 4:48 PM, aklist wrote:

> On 7/13/2011 10:01 AM, TR Shaw wrote:
>> I have a script to dump them from eims BUT I just use @domain.com for my 
>> user/domain and let eims do the rejection f the account isn't there.  
>> Simple. Only have to change when you add a domain not a user.
>> 
>> Tom
> 
> Hi Tom: After implementing this strategy, I'm finding that my EIMS "receive 
> error log" is filling up with "receive failed from..." messages for bogus 
> accounts.
> 
> Aside from this minor inconvenience of the log filled with these errors, is 
> there any other advantage to having ASSP reject the invalid addresses?
> 
> Any reduction in server overhead?
> 
> Any ability in ASSP to block on too-many-unknown-user attempts?
> 
> TIA, AK
> 
>> 
>> On Jul 13, 2011, at 12:16 PM, aklist wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi All: I currently have two EIMS servers in production, one running 
>>> CounterAgent and the other running ASSP. I've been slowly migrating domains 
>>> to the ASSP server, and find myself forgetting to add email addresses to 
>>> the valid recipients list in ASSP when I add a user in EIMS.
>>> 
>>> Just wondering what people are doing to keep this in sync? I'm not using 
>>> LDAP...should I be using it?
>>> 
>>> TIA, AK
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