WhiteList & Blacklist in CustomConfig.pm

[Julian Field]

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At 16:41 22/10/2004, you wrote:
>Hi
>
>I have a domain that I know I will only recieve email
>from a paticular set of IP addresses.
>
>I want to block any mail for this domain that does not
>come from these paticular IP addresses.
>
>I was looking at using the whitelist/blacklist
>function in CustomConfig.pm,
>
>I would set up a whitelist in the whitelist directory
>called domain.co.uk and add to it the IP addresses of
>the servers I know I recieve mail from.
>
>Then set up a blacklist in the blacklist directory
>called domain.co.uk, my question is can I just use *
>to indicate block everything?

You don't use "*", you use "default". This will be over-ridden by any other
entries in the blacklist file for that domain, but you can just have a
single line saying "default" to provide the default value for that domain.


>Am I correct in saying that this gets looked at before
>any virus/spamassasin scanning?

The per-domain black/whitelist code in CustomConfig.pm was intended to be
used for the "Is Definitely Spam" and "Is Definitely Not Spam"
configuration options, but you can apply the same Custom Function to other
(or just several) configuration options.


>Thanks
>
>Paul Houselander
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