Outstanding feature/fix requests?

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Tue Mar 8 21:51:52 GMT 2005


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From: /etc/MailScanner/from.addresses and To:
/etc/MailScanner/to.addresses yes

should work.

Derek Winkler wrote:

>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:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>>>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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