[Mailman-Developers] 2.1.8 documentation mismatch

[Brad Knowles]

At 10:41 AM +0100 2006-06-07, Ian Eiloart wrote:

>  Even better would be to integrate Mailman into MTA's better, so that the
>  MTA can use Mailman data to reject spam.

	I think we've had this debate in the past.  I don't think that's 
possible, given the sorts of things that Mailman may do with 
messages, including taking different actions on different messages 
with the exact same combination of envelope sender and recipient, 
based on the values of other things in the headers (such as placed 
there by anti-spam/anti-virus scanning systems).


	If you want to completely re-write your MTA so that it has a deep 
understanding of all the internal workings of Mailman, feel free to 
go ahead and do that.

	Otherwise, I suspect that we're going to continue to have this 
kind of problem for quite some time.

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