Rules and Mailing lists

[Matt Hampton]

Scott Silva wrote:
> Matt Hampton spake the following on 5/2/2006 2:40 PM:
>>> Is there a better solution to set up the rule using some other email
>>> header that will identify email just from joe at magnet.fsu.edu without
>>> opening up the whole list?
>> I am assuming that you have MailScanner "in front" of your mailman
>> installation?
>>
>> The way that I have it set is is to have a second sendmail process
>> listening on loopback which only accepts mail from a list address.
>>
>> The incoming message is scanned by MailScanner and passed to mailman.
>> MailMan then forwards the expanded mail to the second sendmail process
>> which attempts delivery and will place any deferred entries in the
>> standard mqueue directory.
>>
>> This means each message is only scanned once and rules can be applied as
>> you expect.
>>
>> matt
>>
>>
> Sounds like good wiki fodder! Do you have some details of the setup you did?
> 
> 

http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=documentation:related_software:mailman

Early draft.  Comments please!