At 12:57 PM +0000 2005-11-18, Ian Eiloart wrote:
I do mean that my MTA should work closer with Mailman, either by sharing data, or by letting Mailman reject (not bounce) messages somehow. "Integrating with" might be a better way of expressing it.
How do you propose to do that? Each MTA has their own way of
working. Should we pick one MTA and tell everyone that they have to use that one exclusively and we don't allow any other MTAs to be used/supported?
Please give me details on precisely what level and kind of
integration would be required.
Let's be clear. The *requirement* is that my MTA should never accept an email that isn't going to prove undeliverable.
I'm sorry. That sentence just isn't parsing right now. It seems
like a double or maybe triple negative or something. Can you try re-wording that?
No, I just need to be able to access the rules from some other system. That means that the rules need to be stored in a manner that's accessible to my MTA. SQL, LDAP, flat files, I don't really care, but they do need to be accessible. They also need to be represented in a manner that's easy to understand. For example, a list of regular expressions. Exim can easily manage that.
Okay, do everything in your MTA. Problem solved. We don't need
any Mailman integration for that.
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