[Mailman-Developers] Moderation rules priority

[Jim Popovitch]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 1:10 PM, Jim Popovitch <jimpop at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 9:17 AM, Ian Eiloart <iane at sussex.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>> For me, the big win for spam prevention with mailing lists is the restriction on posters: it's what keeps mailing lists relatively spam free. Most sites don't like to bounce messages that they've previously accepted, so that means that the spam gets held for moderation, which creates a lot of work for list owners. If list bound mail can be rejected by the MTA at SMTP time, that would save a lot of work for list owners.
>
> Sorry, haven't been following along...
>
> I discussed this several months back on the main list.
> https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2013-August/075523.html
>
> Basically I hacked a copy of find_member into scripts/check_subscriber:
>    (http://paste.debian.net/hidden/c36ff81c/ )
>
> check_subscriber is called by multiple postfix tcp_tables  (one per
> list post addr in master.cf), such that incoming emails are checked
> against the membership list, and smtp rejected if not subscribed.
> Let me know if you want more details.

fyi.. I've pushed this to launchpad (2.1), and included a README (yea!!)

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~jimpop/mailman/check_subscriber/revision/1451

-Jim P.