[Mimedefang] Anti-SPAM for mailman mailing lists question

Lucas Albers admin at cs.montana.edu
Tue Jun 22 19:08:16 EDT 2004


David F. Skoll said:
> On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Chris Myers wrote:
>
>> ... add an additional IP address to the
>> existing mail server, MX the lists to it and run your existing
>> sendmail+MIMEDefang configuration.  My logic is this: since the mailing
>> lists are on a different hostname+IP address no MTA would ever connect
>> to
>> that address except to deliver to mailman recipients.  If I'm correct,
>> you
>> would have the effect of stream_by_domain() taken care of before
>> messages
>> ever got to MIMEDefang at all.
>
Chris,
Could you do this just by an additional hostname or would you need an
additional ip address, as you mention?

> Now that is a good idea!  That's really cool; I never thought of that.
Mabe MD+mailman integration is another feature for canit...

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Luke Computer Science System Administrator
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Montana State University-Bozeman,Montana



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