[Mailman-Users] Help!! Spam Flood!

[Barry Warsaw]

On Jul 22, 2009, at 4:02 AM, Stefan Förster wrote:

> * Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net> wrote:
>> There are many tools available for dealing with spam at this level  
>> that
>> are much more effective than Mailman is.
>
> Since I've read this several times in the past months, it makes me
> wonder if it is planned to drop some of the content filtering features
> that mailman provides in MM3.
>
> I really hope that MM3 will continue to provide at least the
> possibility to cut some unwanted attachment types, ignore the HTML
> part of a mail and so on.
>
> I totally agree that spam prevention is a much more suitable task for
> a MTA or a dedicated content filtering framework like amavisd-new, but
> I think that some minimal filtering functionalitiy should be retained
> in MM3.

I have no plans to drop these features, though I might not "market"  
them as spam fighting measures.

-Barry

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: PGP.sig
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 832 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/attachments/20090722/f8166fbd/attachment.pgp>