On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 02:06:48PM +0200, Peter J. Holzer wrote: > On 2010-06-29 02:13:08 +0000, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > > I'm mucking with an idea, and hoping the denizens here might have some > > input, esp. about potential breakage introduced. > > > > Summary: > > For any given valid recipient, compare the sender whitelist of exact > > matches and regexes. If the sender is NOT present, issue a permanant > > deny (5xx). > > I've written a plugin to do this for majordomo mailinglists: > http://www.hjp.at/projekte/qpsmtpd/majordomo/ > It's been in use for several years now. Early versions only looked at > the envelope sender, but that was surprising to majordomo users > (majordomo uses the From: header), so I implemented an alternate check > for the From: header. Since then it works flawlessly. Cuts down > enormously on the spam the moderators get. > > I started porting it to mailman, but we never got around to switch our > public mailinglists from majordomo to mailman that wasn't finished > either. Nice!
The base of it looks fairly extensible, so I'll add mlmmj support to it for my needs then :-). -- Robin Hugh Johnson Gentoo Linux: Developer, Trustee & Infrastructure Lead E-Mail : robb...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 11AC BA4F 4778 E3F6 E4ED F38E B27B 944E 3488 4E85
