--On 14 August 2006 08:46:18 -0400 Barry Warsaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Aug 14, 2006, at 5:44 AM, Ian Eiloart wrote: > >> This thread arose because someone claimed that SubEtha didn't suck. My >> comment was that the developers choice of auto-moderation instead >> of SMTP >> time rejection was a missed opportunity. It's probably easier to >> implement, >> and more frequently the desired behaviour for a closed list. The >> developers' didn't seem to think SMTP time rejection was >> desireable, and I >> think that sucks. > > Certainly given sufficient hooks in the MTA, you might be able to make > various decisions about the acceptability of a message at SMTP time, > although it depends on where in the SMTP dialog you want to hook in. After "RCPT TO". At that point, if a person isn't allowed to post to the list, the best thing to do is to reject the message. Of the lists I manage, 99% of attempts to post to the list by non-members are spam. Auto-moderation, as you've described, would make sense for some of the lists that I host. > There's no magic in Mailman that would prevent that -- a bit of Python > would do the trick. > > It's not something I'd personally develop because by definition, > integration is highly MTA dependent, but I'd accept contributions and > would be willing to improve the Mailman infrastructure to make things > easier (e.g. see some of the re-org I'm doing in the 2.2 branch to move > functionality out of scripts and into the Mailman package so that 3rd > party Python code can get to it). One thing that would make integration easier, would be a script bin/may_post (or something), which takes a list name (ideally qualified with domain) and sender address, and returns true if the sender address is allowed to post, and false otherwise. > - -Barry > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) > > iQCVAwUBROBwmnEjvBPtnXfVAQINwAQAgrRAw/HFT3XaX2NlnFLwUm9xyXtSGE5m > UBb+uHOPynDZyLjQq4DLM/nHOQ0QNN3a2mOIxYZlJpvcvy11HQEKudhpRoVDxbET > WHau682F+KFMH/QBHN7vK9MJlHT7h+G+ZwnBteP/AQuxEPG58TmKtDgLGGMaEKem > 97fL4Xos250= > =g+pK > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Ian Eiloart IT Services, University of Sussex _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
