[Mailman-Users] using an ORBS type lookup to auto reject posts

[Brad Knowles]

At 5:52 PM -0600 2006-03-05, Jeff DeReus wrote:

>  I was curious if there is some sort of mechanism in mailman 2.1.5 to reverse
>  lookup (?)  the poster via some sort of ORBS type database without manually
>  blacklisting all the different addresses that are out there.  Any help or
>  leads to documentation would be helpful.

	This kind of stuff belongs in the MTA, or as part of the 
anti-spam/anti-virus/anti-abuse mail filtering system that you use in 
conjunction with the MTA.  By the time the message has gotten to 
Mailman then you've already lost the battle, if you're trying to do 
these kinds of lookups.

	These kinds of things are only useful to do before you accept the 
message, and that can only be done within the MTA, or within the 
before-queue mail filtering system that works with the MTA.  If you 
don't keep the stuff off your server to begin with, then you've 
already lost.

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