[Mailman-Developers] MM3: list disabling/enabling?

Barry Warsaw barry at list.org
Tue Jul 12 17:11:59 CEST 2011


On Jul 12, 2011, at 01:06 PM, Ian Eiloart wrote:

>Bouncing certainly is suboptimal, since it may create collateral spam. Better
>to reject the message at SMTP time with a 5xx response than to bounce.

That's an interesting take on it.  The LMTP server in Mailman could reject
messages addressed to disabled lists, and that 5xx error should propagate
through the MTA.

-Barry
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