Outstanding feature/fix requests?

Derek Winkler dwinkler at ALGORITHMICS.COM
Tue Mar 8 21:41:07 GMT 2005


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How do you do this with file...

From: whoever at whatever.com and To: somebody at somewhere.com yes

Ummmm....

From: /etc/MailScanner.conf/spam.whitelist.addresses yes

with /etc/MailScanner.conf/spam.whitelist.addresses containing...

whoever at whatever.com and To: somebody at somewhere.com

-OR-

???

-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
Behalf Of Julian Field
Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 4:39 PM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: Outstanding feature/fix requests?


Don't understand your question :(

Derek Winkler wrote:

>Yes but using files and keeping the LHS associated with the RHS of the and.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
>Behalf Of Julian Field
>Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 4:23 PM
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Re: Outstanding feature/fix requests?
>
>
>Direction: address-pattern and Direction: address-pattern result
>So for example:
>
>From: domain.com and to: customer.com store,deliver
>
>This could be used in, for example, Non-Spam Actions, and would cause
>non-spam mail going from domain.com to customer.com to be stored in the
>quarantine as well as being delivered.
>
>Derek Winkler wrote:
>
>
>
>>What's the syntax for rules containing and statements?
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
>>Behalf Of Julian Field
>>Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 4:05 PM
>>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>>Subject: Re: Outstanding feature/fix requests?
>>
>>
>>If you have a lot of address patterns that produce the same result, you
>>can rewrite the rule so that it contains a filename instead of the
>>address pattern. The rule will be replicated for each of the address
>>patterns in the named file.
>>
>>So instead of putting this in a ruleset:
>>From: a at b.com yes
>>From: *@c.com yes
>>From: d@* yes
>>From: 127.0.0.1 yes
>>From: 152.78. yes
>>From: 10.1. no
>>From: default no
>>
>>You can use this:
>>From: /etc/MailScanner.conf/spam.whitelist.addresses yes
>>From: 10.1. no
>>From: default no
>>
>>And then in /etc/MailScanner.conf/spam.whitelist.addresses you put this:
>>a at b.com
>>*@c.com
>>d@*
>>127.0.0.1
>>152.78.
>>
>>And files like the one above can contain the names of files containing
>>yet more addresses. You can nest them up to 4 layers deep (intentional
>>arbitrary limit to stop you making loops by mistake).
>>
>>
>>Derek Winkler wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>Include statements in rule/config files?
>>>
>>>No nesting necessary since it makes it messy.
>>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
>>>Behalf Of Julian Field
>>>Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 11:42 AM
>>>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>>>Subject: Outstanding feature/fix requests?
>>>
>>>
>>>Other than a minor cosmetic one I can't reproduce, I don't think I have
>>>any outstanding requests for fixes.
>>>
>>>Does anyone know of any fixes or features they would like to see, that I
>>>haven't yet done?
>>>
>>>--
>>>Julian Field
>>>
>>>


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