> I am new to email servers, so pardon my ignorance.
>
> The small company I work for has an email server where they want
> to create an approved/whitelist for emails coming from the outside. For
> example,
> I email johnsmith@
abc.com. the
abc.com mailserver does not see my email
> address in approved list for the user account and/or as a company-wide
> contact list, so the
abc.com mail server sends a reply to me to confirm I
> sent
> the email that I *really* wanted to send the email to john@
abc.com.
> Meanwhile,
> John receives my email, after confirmation of my response, then he adds me
> to his personal contact/approved list. The mail administrator found out
> that
> I am
> a new client of
abc.com so I am added to the company-wide approved list.
>
> We are running Courier 0.53 on Centos Linux 4.4
> ...