Config error....spamwhitelist

[jchezny at northcarolina.edu]

Quoting Julian Field <mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk>:
Correct. Actually there were two rules w/ IP addresses. Removed the two rules
and the error messages went away.

Thank you,

-jc

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> You have a rule in there that says either
> To: 10.2.3.4 yes
> or
> FromOrTo: 10.2.3.4 yes
> haven't you?
>
> You cannot match a destination IP address in a rule. There is no way of
> knowing exactly what IP address the message will be delivered to until
> you are actually in the process of sending the bytes of data to it, due
> to the fault-tolerant way in which internet email delivery works.
>
> You can do a "From" match against an IP address, but certainly not a To
> or a FromOrTo.
>
> jchezny at northcarolina.edu wrote:
> > All,
> > I am using spam.whitelist.rules in my configuration (Is Definitely Not Spam
> =
> > %rules-dir%/spam.whitelist.rules); and have notice this error message in
> the
> > logs:
> >  * Config Error: Cannot match against  destination IP address when
> resolving
> > configuration option  "spamwhitelist" *
> >
> > Otherwise, my installation works like a charm. MailScanner has served us
> > faithfully for more than three years now. Thanks Julian for such a great
> > product-I bought the book and a golf shirt!
> >
> > My configuration:
> > Running on Linux  2.6.9-42.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Jul 12 23:27:17 EDT 2006 i686
> i686
> > i386 GNU/Linux
> >  - This is Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant Update 4)
> >  - This is Perl version 5.008005 (5.8.5)
> >  - This is MailScanner version 4.51.6
> >  - This is Postfix version 2.2.10
> >  - This is a Dell PE 2850, 2x2.8Ghz, 1GB RAM
> >
> > Any ideas? Thanks in advance for any assistance you provide.
> >
> > Kind regards,
> >
> > J. Chezny
> >
> >
> >
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