spam black/white lists case sensitive?

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Mon Jun 16 23:01:12 IST 2003


It should all be case-insensitive.

At 14:42 16/06/2003, you wrote:
>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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