whitelist processing question.

[Julian Field]

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Dean Jones wrote:

> hi,
>
> I have searched a bit for this answer but no luck..
> What order do the spam.whitelist rules get processed?

First to last, just like a firewall rule list.

> say i want to NOT whitelist a certain ip address from my range
> (secondary MX).
> but i DO want to whitelist all of the other IP addresses..
> Will this work?
>
> From:   192.168.1.10    no
> From:   192.168.1.      yes

Should do, yes.

>
> does it match the first rule and exit?

Yes.

> if so i have something misconfigured cause even my secondary is getting
> whitelisted and spammers like to send through it.
> but i'd like it there for redundancy in case my primary breaks.

Add a default rule as well. Doesn't matter where the default rule goes,
it is used when none of the other rules match.

>
>
> thanks.
>
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