4.28.5-2 and zip files

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Sat Mar 6 11:05:08 GMT 2004


At 18:34 05/03/2004, you wrote:
>On Mar 5, 2004, at 8:24 AM, Julian Field wrote:
>>>
>>>FromOrTo:   132.210.x.y  yes
>>
>>You can't match a "To" address that is an IP number as you don't know
>>the destination IP address until after you have delivered the message.
>>You can only use "From" with IP addresses.
>
>As a point of clarification (I've had this question for a while, and
>just seems to fit now), when you match from on an IP address, it's not
>actually related to the From address (as in, a DNS lookup of the email
>address), it's the MTA's relay (the $_ in sendmail-ese) right?

Correct.

>Which leads me to another question: does mailscanner loose anything if
>the $_ only has the IP address and not the hostname?

No.
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