Thank you Brad for all of your help to my posts over the past weeks/days, who knows sometimes when you get busy. I will have to look into tying in spamassassin to those mailman lists. currently they are private so the only person who gets the post is myself as list-admin. i was simply looking for a quick way to unclutter my inbox.
Thank you, Jeff D On 3/5/06, Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At 5:52 PM -0600 2006-03-05, Jeff DeReus wrote: > > > I was curious if there is some sort of mechanism in mailman 2.1.5 to > reverse > > lookup (?) the poster via some sort of ORBS type database without > manually > > blacklisting all the different addresses that are out there. Any help > or > > leads to documentation would be helpful. > > This kind of stuff belongs in the MTA, or as part of the > anti-spam/anti-virus/anti-abuse mail filtering system that you use in > conjunction with the MTA. By the time the message has gotten to > Mailman then you've already lost the battle, if you're trying to do > these kinds of lookups. > > These kinds of things are only useful to do before you accept the > message, and that can only be done within the MTA, or within the > before-queue mail filtering system that works with the MTA. If you > don't keep the stuff off your server to begin with, then you've > already lost. > > -- > Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little > temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." > > -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), reply of the Pennsylvania > Assembly to the Governor, November 11, 1755 > > LOPSA member since December 2005. See <http://www.lopsa.org/>. > ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org 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/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
