Blacklisting by server hostname

[Julian Field]

At 22:19 11/03/2004, you wrote:
>Hi
>
>A question that I would like to see clarified is that of "addresses"
>blocked in spam.blacklist.rules.  My understanding from the
>MailScanner/rules/EXAMPLES and README files is that you can block based on
>patterns that match e-mail addresses or IP addresses.  I think it should
>be clarified whether e-mail addresses are matched based on the envelope
>address or the From: address in the message header.  I assume that it is
>based only on the envelope sender address - as with say a sendmail access
>file blacklist.  Is that correct?

They are blacklisted by the IP address on the far end of the SMTP
connection to the MailScanner server.

>Nowhere in the above files is there a mention of how to block by server
>hostname - which I consider most important.  I would like to be able to
>block mail from any host in, say, the namespace .client2.attbi.com, for
>example.  Will "*.client2.attbi.com" work?  All the examples however use
>e-mail addresses and not domain names, and *@*.client2.attbi.com is
>definitely not what I want.

No, sorry.
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