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 <brad@stop.mail-abuse.org> wrote:

At 5:52 PM -0600 2006-03-05, Jeff DeReus wrote:

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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.

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