Feature request: Overloading Whitelists/Blacklists

[Julian Field]

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The answer to your question is all in 
/usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/CustomConfig.pm. There is code in there 
to provide per-user and per-domain white and black-lists. It's all 
obvious in that file, it gives you instructions on what to set in your 
MailScanner.conf and how to lay out the files.

You can then just build the files from a database on a regular basis, 
and kill -HUP (or service MailScanner reload) to tell MailScanner to 
re-read all the files. It caches the files internally which makes it a 
whole lot faster!

This method is heaps faster than using a large conventional ruleset.

It would be really helpful if you could log what you did into the wiki 
so that the instructions are there for others.

If you have problems setting it up, just shout for help.

Joost Waversveld wrote:

>Hey,
>
>We want to use MailScanner for a lot of domains. I was checking if we could
>define the whitelist per domain in a seperate file. Unfortunately I do not get
>it working. I tried the solution you can find on the wiki about "overloading
>filename.rules.conf"
>(http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=documentation:configuration:rulesets:overloading&s=overloading)
>but then I get an syntax error. Apparently this does not work for defining
>whitelists/blacklists.
>
>We want to do this so it's much easier to administrate all the settings for our
>users.
>
>According to the error I got, I think this is not an feature what's already in
>Mailscanner, what makes this email an Feature request. :) I really hope this is
>gonna be an feature of MailScanner.
>
>Greets,
>
>Joost Waversveld
>
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