[Mailman-Users] specific (1) LHS and (2) sender rules to frustrate spam/phishing

Mark Sapiro msapiro at value.net
Fri Jun 29 18:00:07 CEST 2007


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Rich Kulawiec wrote:
> Two related suggestions.

<snip>

> [1] The difference between a reject and a bounce: a reject is performed
> by emitting the appropriate SMTP status code and closing the connection;
> that is, the message is refused while the SMTP connection is open from
> the sending side.

Exactly, which is why Mailman can't do this. It has to be done in the
incoming MTA. Mailman doesn't see the message until the MTA has already
accepted it.

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Mark Sapiro <msapiro at value.net>       The highway is for gamblers,
San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan

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