Re: How Pepperfish handles the Lua mailing list

[Florian Weimer <fw@...>]

* Rob Kendrick:

> On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 09:41:40PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> * Daniel Silverstone:
>> 
>> > When Pepperfish receives the MAIL FROM, before *any* other
>> > processing occurs, we subject that address to what is called 'Sender
>> > callout verification'.
>> 
>> You should do this only for addresses which are not subscribed to the
>> mailing list, I think.  You already know that the address is valid,
>> after all.
>
> Surely only knew it once before?

Sorry?  You can defer the check until processing the RCPT TO: command.

> Plus, I can imagine difficulties integrating this test (done by the
> MTA) and the mailing list subscription list (done by Mailman).

After posting, I remembered something:

<http://www.enyo.de/fw/software/exim/mailman-smtp-reject.html>

I'm not sure if the scripts work as-is today, but they can probably be
adjusted.