-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Apr 12, 2008, at 3:06 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > Barry Warsaw wrote: >> On Apr 11, 2008, at 9:30 AM, Ian Eiloart wrote: >> >>>> IIRC, this is going to be called when the "\r\n.\r\n" terminator to >>>> the >>>> DATA command is seen. That might be an interesting place to hook >>>> in >>>> content filtering. >>> >>> Yes, that's the earliest opportunity to filter content. It also >>> allows the LTMP server to accept the message for some lists, but not >>> others. It doesn't help the local SMTP server, though, since it's >>> too late for an SMTP server to selectively reject. >>> >>> Some admins may prefer this though. For example, I monitor my SMTP >>> server queues more closely than my Mailman queues. >> >> So you mean that most SMTPd's will have accepted the message by they >> time they issue the DATA to the LMTP? If that's the case, then does >> it even make sense to do content filtering at that step in LMTP, >> given >> that we'll still be doing the full-blown rule matching in the >> incoming >> runner? > > I don't think that's what Ian is saying. The key word is > 'selectively'. > I.e. the SMTP server can still reject the incoming message, but once > it has seen the DATA, it can only reject the entire message; it can't > reject a subset of RCPTs.
Ah, right, on the SMTP side. LMTP can reject individual RCPTs, but the SMTP upstream of it can't. Thanks, - -Barry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAkgBC9cACgkQ2YZpQepbvXGxpwCgnIYYZNTyI0JGRyJ6xCbfCwxU FJIAnju+uzmG6QKjPHbFRIvGM0Ol7vMH =fPWI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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
