mailscanner and perdomain white and blacklists

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu Feb 2 18:21:12 GMT 2006



Dimitri Yioulos wrote:
> Sorry for the apparent lack of clarity.
>
> As I said, I'm using Mailwatch's SQLBlackWhiteList.pm, so my MailScanner.Conf 
> "Is Definitely Not Spam = &SQLWhitelist" and "Is Definitely Spam = 
> &SQLBlacklist".  Without cauisng MS to barf , can I do something like:
>
> Is Definitely Not Spam = &SQLWhitelist %rules-dir/spam.whitelist.rules
>
> or
>
> Is Definitely Not Spam = &SQLWhitelist
> Is Definitely Not Spam = %rules-dir/spam.whitelist.rules
>
>   
No.
> If not, how do I continue to use SQLBlackWhiteList.pm and "supplement" it with 
> another whitelist?
>   
Without writing a bit of code, you can't. sorry.
> Dimitri
>
>
> On Thursday February 02 2006 12:50 pm, Julian Field wrote:
>   
>> Dimitri Yioulos wrote:
>>     
>>> 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:
>>>       
>> You can do
>> From: friend at nicesite.com and 152.34. yes
>> into a ruleset.
>>
>> Does that help?
>> If not, I don't quite understand what you are getting at.
>>
>>     
>>> 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
>>>>>> www.MailScanner.info
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