John Nemeth <jnemeth@cue.bc.ca> writes:

> On May 9,  2:42pm, Wolfgang Rupprecht wrote:
> } 
> } Actually, much of the spam that homeworld.cygnus.com forwards could be
> } stopped with the current sendmail 8.9.0 run as a front-end filter for
> } qmail doing the final delivery.  (Phony "from" filtering and
> } spam-software-only header filtering does a surprisingly thorough job.)

How hard would it be to add this to qmail?  I can't imagine it is that
hard, and I also can't imagine that filtering on "From " or "From:" can
really catch spam...  people will just list lamer@aol.com or
evenlamer@msn.com there.

>      Having one MTA feed another is not only silly, but grossly
> wasteful of resources.  However, it would be nice if homeworld didn't
> run qmail, since it is grossly wasteful of bandwidth.

But, for mailing lists, that helps a lot.  Having the list manage itself
is much nicer than having some list maintainer have to kick in all the
time.

--Michael