* 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 -- [*] sys4 AG http://sys4.de, +49 (89) 30 90 46 64 Franziskanerstraße 15, 81669 München Sitz der Gesellschaft: München, Amtsgericht München: HRB 199263 Vorstand: Patrick Ben Koetter, Axel von der Ohe, Marc Schiffbauer Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Joerg Heidrich _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
