CustomConfig.pm per user/domain lists

[Julian Field]

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At 21:14 06/10/2004, you wrote:
>I've decided to try the per domain whitelisting/blacklisting in
>CustomConfig.pm.  In
>http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=ind0305&L=mailscanner&P=R43253&I=-1
>it is asked if wildcards are allowed.  Julian mentions that he "might
>expand this later to allow IP prefixes and possibly domain suffixes."
>
>In a normal rules file, one is allowed to use wildcards.  I've tried to
>use wildcards in the spam.bydomain/whitelist/... files with no success.
>
>Does the ability to do this exist?  I've compared sub
>InitByDomainSpamWhitelist in the version I am currently using (4.31.6)
>and current version (4.34.8), but don't see any difference that might
>point to wildcard acceptance.

You can't use wildcards in this context. For speed, all it needs to do
currently is about 4 hash array lookups. If you allow wildcards you might
as well go back to having a huge conventional ruleset, you will lose all
the speed advantage.
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