(Fwd) Re: Non nesting rules

[Howard Robinson]

Apologies to all who tried the whitelisting method detailed below
that I so confidently posted to the list.
It does not work quite correctly.
It was fine when I tested it but the To: entry and the From: entry I
used were the first lines!!!
I have had reports of emails in the two lists still being marked as
spam and after much head scratching I move the entries to part
way down the list and it stopped working!
I assume there must be a delimiter between entries on the list but
so far I've not found it.
Archives here I come.


------- Forwarded Message Follows -------
From:                   Howard Robinson <Howard at harper-adams.ac.uk>
To:                     MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK.
Subject:                Re: Non nesting rules
Date sent:              Thu, 3 Feb 2005 16:40:00 -0000

Thanks to Julian and several others who replied to this subject
earlier in the week.
(It may be teaching Grandmothers to suck eggs - that is still legal
in the UK- but for newbies and more timid users, like me, it may be
useful).

The problem was allowing 4 staff to accept email from 60 off
campus addresses without being spam checked. I could have
added a line for each combination but that would have been hard to
maintain - 4*60 = 240 lines at the moment!
The solution below means only two lists need amending should
more staff or students need adding or the in-decipherable email
address on the hand written list given to me need correcting .
A stop and restart of mailscanner was necessary.

In MaiLScanner.conf
Is Definitely Not Spam = %rules-dir%/spam.whitelist.rules

In %rules-dir%/spam.whitelist.rules
# This is where you can build a Spam WhiteList
# Addresses matching in here, with the value
# "yes" will never be marked as spam.
# Next line is wrapped over two lines in the email but one
# in the real file
To:     /etc/MailScanner/lists/harperstaff and  From:
/etc/MailScanner/lists/offcampuslist yes
FromOrTo:       default         no

In /etc/MailScanner/lists/harperstaff
I have 1 address per line
harperusera at mydomain
harperuserb at mydomain
harperuserc at mydomain
harperuserd at mydomain

in /etc/MailScanner/lists/offcampuslist
I have 1 addess per line
OffcampususerA at domain1
OffcampususerB at domain1
OffcampususerC at domain2
OffcampususerD at domain123
...etc

I have tried this using a Yahoo account and my harper account as
a test and it works fine. Mailwatch shows whitelisted emails in a
lovely shade of green.(-;

Thanks to Julian et al for a great package
By the way got the book and I am finding it useful.



Regards

Howard Robinson
(Senior Technical Development Officer)
Harper Adams University College
Edgmond
Newport
Shropshire
TF10 8NB UK

E-mail: hrobinson at harper-adams.ac.uk
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