whitelist advice

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Fri Aug 29 08:58:30 IST 2003


At 19:36 28/08/2003, you wrote:
>In the never ending quest to balance stopping spam and keeping customers
>happy with minimum false positives, I am considering adding a whitelist
>rule of:
>   "From   @*.org  no"
>
>to allow all mail sent from '.org' site.
>
>2) Is that the correct format? I've seen rules created with '*@xxx.xxx'
>and with just '@xxx.xxx'. Is the astrix wildcard really required in front
>of the '@' sign?

The rule compiler is pretty flexible. As long as it can work out what you
meant, it will handle it fine. So any of
         @*.org
         *@*.org
         *.org
will all work fine and do the same thing.
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