Blacklisting by server hostname

[Stephen Swaney]

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> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> Behalf Of Julian Field
> Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 5:29 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Blacklisting by server hostname
>
> 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.

Your MTA is probably the right place to block by domain or server name. Uses
lots less resources.

Steve
Stephen Swaney
President
Fortress Systems Ltd.
Steve.Swaney at FSL.com

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