[Mailman-Users] Fake Email

Mark Sapiro mark at msapiro.net
Tue Nov 10 16:53:00 CET 2009


Conrad Richter wrote:
>
>Another way to deal with this is sender confirmation by email, where,
>like subscriber confirmation by email, a message is sent with a
>confirmation link. Mailman doesn't have this capability presently but it
>seems to me that since it already has subscriber confirmation, it should
>be possible to adapt that sender confirmation.


Do you really think it's a good idea to require every post to be
confirmed? Note that since Mailman is downstream of the MTA, it
doesn't have direct access to the sender's IP, so IPs can't be
whitelisted.

Also, it is just another way to enable your server to be a source of
Joe Jobs.

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