[Zope] Restricting Posts to Subscribers

Andrew Sawyers andrew at zope.com
Fri Jun 25 12:34:01 EDT 2004


Jens Vagelpohl wrote:

>>> +1 on restring to subscriber only. If you want to add some
>>> blacklists, I'll advise http://cbl.abuseat.org/
>>
>>
>> Why would we need blacklists if we're restricting posts based on 
>> subscription?
>
>
> Very simple: The blacklists operate at the Postfix level. The checks 
> to see who is subscribed and who is not operate at the Mailman level. 
> Mailman is, err, very resource intensive. Any mail that can be 
> rejected by Postfix and thus never reaches Mailman is a big win. 
> Andrew and I saw that yestrday when we tweaked some settings.
>
> jens
>
>
We handle as much at the MTA lvl as possible - not doing this will make 
the server unuseable.  Regardless of the posting policy, we will 
continue this (as Jens points out).
Andrew

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