[Mailman-Developers] Google Summer of Code - Spam Defense

[Eino Tuominen]

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Barry Warsaw writes:
> 
>  > On Mar 29, 2008, at 11:17 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>  > 
>  > > For this reason I am looking forward to a way to issue SMTP rejects
>  > > based on content.  Eg, for sendmail and postfix, this could be
>  > > implemented via a Mailman-provided milter.
>  > 
>  > What about the Mailman 3 LMTP server?  I plan on backporting this to  
>  > 2.2.
> 
> I don't see how that works.  Do SMTP MTAs typically initiate an LMTP
> session before accepting mail from remote hosts?  If they don't, then

No, they don't. Mailman-milter has potential. That way most of privacy 
rules could be checked in SMTP conversation phase, and "Reject" would be 
once again a useful action.

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   Eino Tuominen