ANNOUNCE: Version 3.22-5 released

[Julian Field]

At 16:46 23/07/2002, you wrote:
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>On Tuesday 23 July 2002 13:21, Julian Field wrote:
> > I have just released Version 3.22-5.
> >
> > Many thanks to the beta testers for finding the odd obscure bug.
> >
> > A few new features this time:
> >
> > * Spam White List configuration option now gives a filename whose contents
> > are checked against both the sender's address and the recipients'
> > addresses.
>
>This is VERY misleading. I had my domain polito.it in the whitelist
>to accept all the messages coming from people in the domain (so to avoid
>false positives) and now all the messages where whitelisted since polito.it
>is always the destination domain!

The solution is very simple. Use "Accept Spam From" to define the net
blocks your local network lives in, whitelisting all your local hosts. Use
"Spam WhiteList" to define all the named domains which you want to accept
spam from.


>I do not know how easy is to work around, since I should now list all the
>possible local domains
>
>The previous content was
>
>*.polito.it
>polito.it
>
>I'm afraid @polito.it will not be sufficient, since people often uses their
>full email address (the one name at machine) and there are lots of possible
>addresses in our domain (not all under my control).
>
>Is there a problem in my configuration or this is a more serious problem?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Maurizio Munafo'
>
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Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
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