[Mailman-Developers] before next release: disable backscatter indefault installation

[Barry Warsaw]

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On Mar 6, 2008, at 12:30 PM, Ian Eiloart wrote:

> That's probably the most desirable option from the point of view of  
> efficiency, but I'd need to be querying a database remotely.  
> Preferably one with several replicas. Would LDAP be an option?  
> That's what we currently use for our user authentication. Hmm,  
> doesn't look like it. I guess I could knock up a postgres cluster.

Theoretically, you would be able to implement different backends for  
the appropriate interfaces so that some of the data comes out of LDAP,  
but I haven't gotten that far yet.

> The ideal thing would be if Mailman had an LMTP interface to accept  
> postings, and could make decisions about accepting mail after RCTP TO.

MM3 will have LMTP, perhaps as the preferred way to get messages into  
the incoming queue.  I hadn't thought about doing acceptance testing  
right there, but it's an interesting idea to think about.

Thanks!
- -Barry

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