[Mailman-Developers] MTA Integration (was PHP Wrappers?)

[Ian Eiloart]

On 21 Nov 2005, at 20:27, Robby Griffin wrote:

> On Nov 21, 2005, at 05:25, Ian Eiloart wrote:
>
>> OK, the MTA should ONLY accept email that it can deliver.
>
> FWIW, Mailman currently avoids doing anything about this for a  
> documented reason (scripts/post):
>
>     # Immediately queue the message for the incoming qrunner to  
> process.  The
>     # advantage to this approach is that messages should never get  
> lost --
>     # some MTAs have a hard limit to the time a filter prog can  
> run.  Postfix
>     # is a good example; if the limit is hit, the proc is SIGKILL'd  
> giving us
>     # no chance to save the message.

Well, this is OK if the MTA can see the ACL. Then, it can reject or  
accept the message before passing it to Mailman.



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