On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 19:22:22 -0400 Jeff Warnica <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Uh, because ISPs cant be deleting mail, ever? Actually they can and do, constantly, now, today and for many yesterdays. > Tag everything and leave it up to something else to deal > with. This is quite possible with SpamAssassin installed at the MTA level. > Even if you want resonably scored spam not to reach Mailman by > silently deleting it, it would be more trouble to scan everything > except that destin for Mailman then to just scan everything. It is relatively trivial to configure the MTA to selectively scan mail, be it only mail destined for Mailman, mail destined for local accounts, or whatever. Additionally there are side-benefits from scanning all mail, or at least scanning at a layer higher in the protocol stack: it requires less customisation, grants greater overview of cross-spool mail behaviours (esp statistical), and is less invasive to the mail system in general (not every tool then needs to be SpamAssassin or other-scanner aware). <shrug> I finally threw SpamAssassin in as a scanner (not teergrube) under Exim last night and am now wrapping up getting TMDA able to run properly on an account behind a POP3/IMAP account (which loses all the envelope information that TMDA depends on). -- J C Lawrence ---------(*) Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas. [EMAIL PROTECTED] He lived as a devil, eh? http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live. _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers