spam black/white lists case sensitive?

Denis Beauchemin Denis.Beauchemin at USHERBROOKE.CA
Mon Jun 16 14:42:06 IST 2003


Julian,

Does it mean that everything I write in my white/black lists should be in 
lower case?

Denis

Le Samedi 14 Juin 2003 12:41, vous avez écrit :
> At 17:29 14/06/2003, you wrote:
> >RedHat's sendmail-8.12.8-5.80 that comes with RH8.0
> >
> >On Sat, 14 Jun 2003, Julian Field wrote:
> > > What MTA are you using?
> > >
> > > At 17:05 14/06/2003, you wrote:
> > > >I'm using MS 4.20-3 and noticed that some blacklisted mail is not
> > > > being tagged / filtered.
> > > >
> > > >My spam blacklist is all in lowercase, whereas the sender's domain
> > > > name uses uppercase letters as well.
> > > >
> > > >I have this in my blacklist file:
> > > >From:           @globalautoindustry.com         yes
> > > >
> > > >The spammer is sending mail from @GlobalAutoIndustry.com
> > > >
> > > >Are these lists case sensitive?
>
> Before it stores the sender address of the mail, it converts it to
> lower-case: $message->{from} = lc($from);
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