On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 11:19:24AM -0800, John W. Baxter wrote:
[...]
> One of the ongoing (if sporadic) discussions on the Mailman mailing lists is
> about the tension between sending rejection and deferral messages to "real"
> senders so they know what happened, and NOT sending those notices to senders
> to avoid collateral spam.
>
> With the present state of MTAs on the one hand, and Mailman on the other
> hand, there is no way using the tools that exist to determine at SMTP time
> that Mailman would not like to receive the offered message. (One could do
> things like writing a Python daemon--the needed information is in a Python
> pickle, so Python is the language of choice--to dig the information out of
> the Mailman data for an Exim RCPT TO: time ACL.)
you can have a go at this sort of thing:
http://www.exim.org/mail-archives/exim-users/Week-of-Mon-20060703/msg00026.html
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