[Mailman-Developers] 2.1.8 documentation mismatch

[Barry Warsaw]

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On Wed, 07 Jun 2006 10:41:26 +0100
Ian Eiloart <iane at sussex.ac.uk> wrote:

> Even better would be to integrate Mailman into MTA's better, so that
> the MTA can use Mailman data to reject spam.

I think that will be problematic, given the wide variety of MTA
extension frameworks.  A better approach would be to structure the
Mailman code in such a way that large parts of it can be used as a
library, which could serve as the basis for sites writing their own MTA
extension, or any other specialized Mailman-based application.

This is actually one of the main reasons why I've been moving the bulk
of the bin and cron scripts to inside the top-level Mailman package for
2.2.  Those scripts need to be refactored a bit better, but they do
provide some useful higher-level operations that other Python programs
can now get access to (e.g. by putting /usr/local/mailman on your
sys.path and doing good ol' imports).

- -Barry
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