Setting up Black & Whitelists by domain

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Wed Jan 15 15:13:55 GMT 2003


I have just fixed a couple of bugs, here's a re-release of CustomConfig.pm.

At 16:33 12/01/2003, you wrote:
>Okay, I've moved the directories to be
>         /etc/MailScanner/spam.bydomain/whitelist
>and
>         /etc/MailScanner/spam.bydomain/blacklist
>but otherwise it is pretty much as I said in my previous posting (included
>at the bottom of this message).
>
>The patch to CustomConfig.pm I have attached has *not* been tested. So give
>it a go and see if it works. If you know some perl, please find all the
>bugs and mail me the corrections :-)
>If it works (or once it works after you have found all the bugs for me)
>then feel free to use it.
>
>To use it, you will need to set these in your MailScanner.conf file:
>
>Is Definitely Not Spam = &ByDomainSpamWhitelist
>Is Definitely Spam = &ByDomainSpamBlacklist
>
>At 15:35 12/01/2003, you wrote:
>>Currently you will have to write some custom function to do it for you.
>>Shouldn't be too hard to do, especially if it's only a simple (but possibly
>>long) ruleset for each domain. If each black/white-listed address is either
>>a complete address or a domain name (so no "*" characters anywhere), then
>>the end result will be very fast too.
>>
>>Thinking further, we have a dir "/opt/bydomain" which contains 2
>>subdirectories, "blacklist" and "whitelist".
>>Each of those directories contains a file named after each domain. So for
>>"example.com" there will be /opt/bydomain/whitelist/example.com and
>>/opt/bydomain/blacklist/example.com.
>>Each of the example.com files can contain entries of the form
>>         user at address.spam.com
>>and
>>         address.spam.com
>>and that's all. Keeping it restricted to this makes life a lot easier later.
>>
>>I'll get back to the list shortly about this, it's probably worth me
>>writing an implementation of this as it is going to be a common requirement.
>>--
>>Julian Field
>>www.MailScanner.info
>>MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support
>
>
>--
>Julian Field
>www.MailScanner.info
>MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support
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