ANNOUNCE: Version 3.22-5 released

[Julian Field]

At 17:23 23/07/2002, you wrote:
>Julian Field wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> >
>Maybe it's an Italian problem ( :- )) , but I had the same solution used
>by munafo' into my mailscanner configuration.
>Now your solution it's a simple breakout for the problem, but I have to
>add 52 rules to my configuration and their maintenance it's not so
>simple as my university network sometimes change without any advise to me....
>
>Could be a simpler solution create two files for the spam whitelisting ?
>One  file for the To addresses check and one file for the From
>addresses ?
>
>So I could leave the "from" whitelist as now and the "to" whitelist
>without any domain listed.

That sounds quite a good solution. Should be easy to implement too :-)
(which means you folks get the feature more quickly).
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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
                             Southampton SO17 1BJ