How to properly whitelist.

[Julian Field]

At 21:43 09/12/2002, you wrote:
>Hmm, I still don't quite get it, now I'm totally lost :)
>
>I included the following line in my spam.whitelist.rules list:
>From:           klm.com                 yes
>Why doesn't this rule include any possible combination of e-mail
>adresses and hosts within the klm.com domain? I'd think that by
>whitelisting klm.com I would have whitelisted both whoever at klm.com
>as well as whoever at wherever.klm.com

No, "klm.com" is shorthand for
         *@klm.com
If you want to whitelist all hosts within the klm.com domain, then you need
to add a rule matching
         *@*.klm.com
as well.

>What would I need to add to get a wildcard like *@*.klm.com ?

Exactly that:
         *@*.klm.com

>Maybe it's a good idea to give ample examples in the rules list that is
>included in mailscanner by default as there seem to be quite a few
>questions about it?

It's okay once you get the hang of it :-)
But point taken. Have you read the "EXAMPLES" and "README" files in the
rules directory provided in the distribution? Did they help? All
contributions of things to add to these files would be most welcome.
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Julian Field
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