Non Nested rules quiry

[Steen, Glenn]

Might it be the ".list" ending on %rules-dir%/chinaemail.rules.list
that is giving you grief? IIRC rules files need end in
.rule or .rules.

-- Glenn

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Behalf Of Howard Robinson
Sent: den 1 februari 2005 16:25
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Non Nested rules quiry


Hello, 
I have 60 staff and students in China that keep having their emails
coming into college marked as spam. They are using about 10 different
domains. 
I want to allow emails from them to four specific staff members here
without them being checked for spam. 
I though I had it sussed but Mailscanner protests when restarting with a
syntax error in the rules file. 
What I have tried so far is:- 
In MailScanner.conf I have (with other blurb snipped and tabs for
spacing) 
Is Definitely Not Spam = %rules-dir%/spam.whitelist.rules 


In %rules-dir%/spam.whitelist.rules 
# note line wrapped 
To: usera at harper-adams.ac.uk 
/etc/MailScanner/rules/chinaemail.rules.list 


FromOrTo: default no 


In /etc/MailScanner/rules/chinaemail.rules.list 
I have 
From: userz at domain1 yes 
From: usery at domain2 yes 
From: userx at domain1 yes 
FromOrTo: default no 


My idea was that only if it were for usera would mailscanner need to
look at the from address however in the book (p309) it says that rules
can't be nested other than files full address patterns. 
However p304 option 14 looks to me to contradict this. 


Have I got this wrong? 



Regards

Howard Robinson
(Senior Technical Development Officer)
Harper Adams University College
Edgmond
Newport
Shropshire
TF10 8NB UK

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