Feature Request: Group configuration items for use in rules

[Julian Field]

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You can already do it. Instead of putting in an email address (or domain
name or whatever), give it a full filename. That file contains address
patterns (or addresses or domain names or whatever) one per line.

It makes it behave exactly as if there were separate rules for every
address in the file, all with the same resulting value for the
configuration option.

Hirsh, Joshua wrote:

>Hi Julian (+ "the list"),
>
> After doing a recent batch of editing a whole slew of configuration rules
>the other day, it got me thinking.
>
> Any chance that you could implement a type of group definitions for use in
>rules? For example, you could define a group named "AnnoyingManagement"
>(chosen at random!) that contains a list of email addresses and then
>reference only the group name in various rule files.
>
>
> This is a very handy feature of most modern firewalls for access lists, and
>I could foresee it helping to cut down on the length of some of our rules. I
>have various files that reference the same list of users quite frequently,
>so if this was implemented, I would only have to edit the group definition
>instead of all of the different rules that it would effect.
>
>
>
> Example of how this might work:
>
> In /etc/MailScanner/rules/group.rules:
> AnnoyingManagement:    bob at domain.com mike at domain.com jim at domain.com
>jill at domain.com sarah at domain.com
> bofhSysadmins: root at domain.com bofh at domain.com support at domain.com
>
>
> In /etc/MailScanner/rules/spam.highscore.rules:
> To:    AnnoyingManagement.group        50
> To:    bofhSysadmins.group     3
> To:    default 10
>
>
> Any comments?
>
>-Joshua
>
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