SV: SV: SV: Regarding rules for more then one person

Anders Andersson, IT andersan at LTKALMAR.SE
Thu Jul 31 13:37:41 IST 2003


One more stupid question..... will this patch work on all rules?

Forgot to say "thanks for all the help"

> -----Ursprungligt meddelande-----
> Från: Julian Field [mailto:mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK] 
> Skickat: den 30 juli 2003 19:50
> Till: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Ämne: Re: SV: SV: Regarding rules for more then one person
> 
> 
> Attached is a diff to Config.pm that implements this.
> You can now have rules that look like this:
> 
> To:     /etc/MailScanner/rules/techies.txt      yes
> 
> Note that it has to be a full path which starts with "/" and ends in 
> something other than "/". The rule will be replicated for all 
> the patterns 
> in the techies.txt file, so you could put this in techies.txt
> 
> # This is the list of all our tech support staff. 
> jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk *@techies.soton.ac.uk
> jkf@*
> /etc/MailScanner/rules/nested-filename.txt
> 
> Note that the file format is like this:
> 1) One pattern or address per line. The allowable patterns 
> are the same as 
> the normal patterns in any normal ruleset file.
> 2) Comments start with # and continue until the end of the line.
> 3) Blank lines are ignored.
> 4) Leading and trailing white space is ignored.
> 5) Further filenames can be included, allowing you to nest 
> these files if 
> you really need to.
> 6) If you make a loop by having a file include itself, then 
> you're silly 
> and shouldn't do it.
> 
> At 17:49 30/07/2003, you wrote:
> > > -----Ursprungligt meddelande-----
> > > Från: Raymond Dijkxhoorn [mailto:raymond at PROLOCATION.NET]
> > > Skickat: den 30 juli 2003 18:46
> > > Till: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > > Ämne: Re: SV: Regarding rules for more then one person
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > > > Whats the use, if you can generate a techies.txt you can also 
> > > > > generate a script that spits out a rulefile to do this ? or ?
> > >
> > > > Guess so but since Im not that a great I thought that 
> being able 
> > > > to use a writing all my co-workers for each rule would be
> > > easier..... and
> > > > if I need I only need to change in one place. Maybe Im 
> just lazy 
> > > > or bad at scripting of problems for me. Since the only ppl
> > > that would be
> > > > added are tech-ppl at use a single file with user for more
> > > rules like
> > > > filname/filetype.
> > >
> > > Ask one of those <haha> :)
> >
> >Now your being evil  ;)
> >Im trying to learn this but prolly never get the hang of it and Im 
> >pretty sure Im not the only person in the world that sucks at 
> >scripting. So if its not to difficult I want it on the wish list  :)
> 




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