Richard Stallman writes: > Do you mean to say that the people at CSAIL ought to switch to using > SpamAssasin instead of filtering in Mailman?
I don't know anything about CSAIL, so I can't say for that particular case. But I've yet to see a *good* reason for doing generic filtering at the Mailman level, such as "too many From fields" or "header contains brand name of ED remedy", rather than at the MTA level. And if they're already doing both, I recommend installing additional rules at the MTA level rather than the Mailman level whenever possible. Of course, some things have to involve Mailman (eg, filtering posts on list membership). But even there, the developers consider it a design bug that Mailman has no way to export its member database to filtering software at the MTA level (which would make it possible to reject a post based on the From: nonmember + To: list combination without ever accepting the mail, among many other potential applications). This is being remedied in Mailman 3. ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
