Rules Du Jour and local domains

[Julian Field]

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Scott Silva wrote:

>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.
>
>
Don't see why not. That should be okay.

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