On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 09:56:49AM -0400, John A. Martin wrote:
> Hmm.... That makes for IMHO an interesting question. Since many, if
> not most MTAs can be configured to reject mail from specific envelope
> senders, usually specified as regular expressions, the question is
>
> what if any envelope senders related to mailman lists (and not
> from our local {host,net}) can be rejected by an MTA that is
> dedicated to handling incoming mail for only the lists.
>
> It is advantageous to reject unwanted mail during the SMTP
> conversation rather than later.
>
> It should be pretty easy to cause a MTA reject all incoming mail from
> non-local relays with any envelope sender address appearing among the
> Mailman aliases.
This sounds like a good and safe thing to configure, but I'm not enough
of a sendmail expert to write those rules. What would one look like to
allow, for example, a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to only come from an
MTA in the foo.com domain?
Thanks,
.../Ed
--
Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
------------------------------------------------------
Mailman-Users mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py
Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/
This message was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Unsubscribe or change your options at
http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
