Rules Du Jour and local domains

Scott Silva ssilva at SGVWATER.COM
Thu Mar 10 19:13:31 GMT 2005


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Jim Coates wrote:
> Julian,
>
> This is what I already do.
>
> My "Virus Scanning" rule looks like this:
>
> From:           *@mydomain.com                  no
> From:           *@myotherdomain.org             no
> FromOrTo:       default                         yes
>
> But it allows spoofed incoming emails to come through.
>
> If I change it to an IP address or block, it allows mail pulled from another
> server via Fetchmail to come through because Fetchmail sends to MailScanner
> via the local IP address, so it looks like its being sent internally (even
> though headers are intact).

Julian, would something like this work?
From: *@mydomain.com and From: 3.4.5.* no

so they have to match local domain and address block.



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