[Mimedefang] Handling mailing lists

[David F. Skoll]

On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, Lucas Albers wrote:

> I was thinking about the best way to handle mailing lists in mimedefang.
> For mailing lists you never want to reject mail, as it will just bounce it
> back to the mailing list.

Only if the mailing list software is buggy.

> Other characteristics I am missing on how to identify mailing lists?
> The goal would be to programmatically identify mailing lists and handle
> them differently then normal mail, to tag but not reject messages from
> them.

I don't bother.  I'm on some mailing lists that actually do get spammed,
and I've never had difficulty because of bouncing mail from them.

Regards,

David.