Bug with mailwatch or mailscanner?

[Steve Freegard]

Hi Fajar,

On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 13:49 +0700, Fajar wrote:
>  
> But if I restart my mailscanner again, those emails won't be marked as
> blacklisted email.
>  

This isn't a bug in either MailWatch or MailScanner - the MailScanner
rules files and configuration are read into memory when MailScanner
starts (for speed) and are not re-read until you either reload/restart
MailScanner or when the MailScanner child is restarted automatically
(see the 'Restart Every' value in MailScanner.conf - default is 4
hours).

The blacklist supplied with MailWatch doesn't support all of the options
available to you in a MailScanner ruleset (it does exact matching on
user, domain, IP address or a default entry - no wildcards are supported
at all) and this data is re-read every 15 minutes by default
(configurable in the .pm file).

Kind regards,
Steve.