mailscanner and perdomain white and blacklists

[Dimitri Yioulos]

Julian,

I hope this isn't a totally lame question, but can the directives "Is 
Definitely Not Spam" and Is Definitely Not Spam" take more than one argument 
(point to multiple sources?  Here's why:

I have one colleague who emails me regularly from outside our system.  His 
mail is marked as spam (listed in RBL, although his ISP doesn't seem to show 
up in RBLs).  I want to whitelist him/exclude him from being scanned.  I'm 
using SQLWhiteBlackList.pm, and it works for individual ip addresses.  I also 
added a tweak to white/blacklist addresses based on the first three address 
octets, but I'm not sure it that works.  As my colleague's ISP uses several 
mail servers to send his mail, it's problematic to try and add every possible 
mail server address to the whitelist.  I've tried adding his email address 
and our domain to the whitelist, but that doesn't seem to work.  I also 
created a file in the MailScanner rules dir called scan.messages.rules, added 
him, and set Scan Messages = %rules_dir%/scan.messages.rules in MailScanner, 
but no joy.

How do I accomplish this?

Regards,

Dimitri

PS - I cross-posted this to the Mailwatch list because I wasn't sure which was 
appropriate - apologies if I boo-booed.


On Thursday February 02 2006 12:28 pm, Julian Field wrote:
> There is code to do this in CustomConfig.pm in
> /usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner. There is documentation in there that
> will tell you how to enable the code and how to set everything up for
> it. Look for the Per-Domain whitelist and blacklist code and you'll find
> it, there is code in the same file for other add-on features as well.
>
> If you have trouble setting it up or getting it basically working, then
> give me a shout (possibly on IRC) and I'll try to help where I can.
>
> It's not hard, you don't have to write any code or anything to make it
> all work
>
> :-)
>
> Dave wrote:
> > Hi Julian,
> >    Thanks for your reply. I haven't had a moment yet to check out that
> > boxes mailscanner.conf except except just a quick overview of the
> > mta-specific settings. Can the spam whitelists and blacklists be used
> > on a perdomain basis? For example, i've got domain1.com and
> > domain2.com. The user at domain1.com wants a user added to his spam
> > whitelist while the user at domain2.com wants a spammer added to his
> > spam blacklist. Ideally i believe these users at domain 1 and 2 .com
> > want independent lists.
> > Thanks a lot.
> > Dave.
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Julian Field"
> > <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
> > To: "MailScanner discussion" <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
> > Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 4:09 AM
> > Subject: Re: mailscanner and perdomain white and blacklists
> >
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> >> On 1 Feb 2006, at 23:32, Dave wrote:
> >>> Hello,
> >>>    I've got a mailscanner install with sendmail. It's working fine
> >>> and it's working for multiple users. Now i'm getting requests from
> >>> user a to add a username/domain to a blacklist file and user b to
> >>> add another username/domain to a whitelist file. These i'm thinking
> >>> should be separate as they are separate domains. This is on an fc4
> >>> box. Is this doable, any help appreciated.
> >>> Thanks.
> >>> Dave.
> >>
> >> Blacklist or whitelist in what sense? You basically just need a
> >> couple of rulesets, one for your blacklist and one for your
> >> whitelist. There is already a spam.whitelist.rules which you can use
> >> as a sample from which to create and use a spam.blacklist.rules file.
> >> Look in MailScanner.conf for spam.whitelist.rules and you will see
> >> how to refer a setting to a rules file.
> >> - -- Julian Field
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