This one time, at band camp, Florian Weimer said: > > On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 06:45:58PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote: > >> So the best idea is indeed for > >> downstream systems to have policies which are no more strict than > >> upstream systems. > > > > Would it be possible for master to make call-outs to chiark ? > > would that solve the problem ? > > I don't think so. The rejections are mostly content-based, I guess. > And DATA callouts are not really possible. > > There are two sane approaches here: block unwanted mail at master > (especially for @debian.org mailbox you don't want to exist), and > accept everything that does get through (only flagging spam, not > rejecting it). > > I'm not sure if the first option has been implemented in the meantime. > It shouldn't be too to do, now that master is running Exim 4, and once > the desired semantics are clear. Since allow_fail is set on the ldap_aliases router, it seems that all we need is some way of letting users set their forward address to :fail: instead of an email address. I suppose the same scripts that let you reset your forwarding address on db.debian.org could also have some interace that made the address lookup fail. Take care, -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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