At 11:35 AM -0800 2006-03-15, Heather Madrone wrote:
Don't relay mail to Mailman that you don't want Mailman to receive. Install good spam filters and tune your MDA so that it won't deliver scattershot messages to Mailman.
We've gone through this discussion before. There are lots of decisions that are made inside of Mailman that the MTA cannot possibly know anything about.
If you configure your Mailman installation so that it never rejects a message or ever sends back any kind of notice that the message has been held for moderation (so that you don't ever generate any blowback), then you will seriously impact the level of services that you can provide your subscribers. At that point, you have to seriously question whether or not it's worth running a mailing list at all.
Moreover, I'm pretty sure that you will be running a pretty highly hacked version of Mailman, because there are some things you can turn off, but there are others that I don't believe you can. At that point, you're not likely to be able to get a lot of help on this mailing list.
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