[Mailman-Developers] mta integration

[Mark Sapiro]

Gordon Messmer wrote:

>I'd like to write a filter for the Courier MTA which will run mailman's 
>approval and spam tests before accepting messages to mailing lists.  My 
>filter framework is in python, so I think I can import the relevant bits 
>of mailman (I'd like to start with MM2.1 compatibility).  Can I get any 
>pointers to the functions that check the sender for approval, and for 
>the spam-specific posting filters?


Everything is done by the handler modules in Mailman/Handlers.
IncomingRunner processes the message by calling the process() function
of each module in the GLOBAL_PIPELINE list in turn until the pipeline
is exhausted or a handler raises an exception.

See the definition of GLOBAL_PIPELINE in Defaults.py and the
SpamDetect.py, Approve.py, Moderate.py and Hold.py handlers in
particular.

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