* Ian Eiloart <[email protected]>:
> On 15 Apr 2013, at 11:22, Stephen J. Turnbull <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > OTOH, a generic interface to the Mailman REST API, which could be used
> > by Sendmail milters or whatever else is out there and somewhat
> > standard (is it Postfix or Exim that can handle milters? I forget),
> > with example implementation of a milter that checks whether the poster
> > is subscribed by asking Mailman, would be useful as an extension to
> > any MTA used with Mailman.
> 
> I think Mailman supports SMTP/LMTP calls to discover whether a sender is 
> permitted to post to a list, doesn't it?
> 
> Exim doesn't handle Milters, but can do the calls forward. Provided Mailman 
> is making the judgement, and issuing L/SMTP rejects at L/SMTP time before 
> accepting the message, Exim is fine.

It would be great if Exim as third MTA in the OSS troika of MTAs would.

> Content filtering *could* also be done at L/SMTP time. I think that where the 
> Mailman and the MTA installations are managed by the same person or 
> organisation, then the better place to have content filtering performed is at 
> the MTA, but there might be exceptions to this.
> 
> For example, a medical mailing list might want to be more liberal with regard 
> to drugs that are commonly marketed in spam. Conversely, a list might have a 
> particular subscriber demographic that makes it more sensitive to bad 
> language. Or perhaps different lists might have different primary languages, 
> and therefore different views on the value of messages in that language.

ACK

> So, I can see that different lists on the same system might have different 
> requirements for spam filtering. However, the solution is probably to provide 
> hooks into Spamassassin, or another existing spam solution, and to provide 
> ways that list owners can manage a configuration file on a per list basis.

ACK. SpamAssassin knows how to apply different policies per recipient(domain).
It is possible to provide policies via file config, SQL or LDAP. 

p@rick

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