Re: RFC on concept: mailinglist_reject_nonsubbed

On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 02:06:48PM +0200, Peter J. Holzer wrote:
> On 2010-06-29 02:13:08 +0000, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> > I'm mucking with an idea, and hoping the denizens here might have some
> > input, esp. about potential breakage introduced.
> > 
> > Summary:
> > For any given valid recipient, compare the sender whitelist of exact
> > matches and regexes.  If the sender is NOT present, issue a permanant
> > deny (5xx).
> 
> I've written a plugin to do this for majordomo mailinglists: 
> http://www.hjp.at/projekte/qpsmtpd/majordomo/ 
> It's been in use for several years now. Early versions only looked at
> the envelope sender, but that was surprising to majordomo users
> (majordomo uses the From: header), so I implemented an alternate check
> for the From: header. Since then it works flawlessly. Cuts down
> enormously on the spam the moderators get.
> 
> I started porting it to mailman, but we never got around to switch our
> public mailinglists from majordomo to mailman that wasn't finished
> either.
Nice!

The base of it looks fairly extensible, so I'll add mlmmj support to it
for my needs then :-).

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