RegEx in whitelist

[Julian Field]

On Fri23 Jun 06, at 17:53, Sam Przyswa wrote:

> Julian Field a écrit :
>
>>
>> On 23 Jun 2006, at 16:42, Sam Przyswa wrote:
>>
>>> shuttlebox a écrit :
>>>
>>>> On 6/23/06, Sam Przyswa <samp at arial-concept.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> What is the right way accept all the smtp*-g*.free.fr machine ?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This should work:
>>>>
>>>> smtp.*-g.*\.free\.fr
>>>
>>
>> You should surround the regexp with "/" so that MailScanner   
>> recognises it properly and does not try to compile it into a  
>> regexp  again. So use
>> From: /smtp\d+-g\d+\.free\.fr/   yes
>
>
> I put it in my spam.whitelist.rules, restart MailScanner and then  
> that's don't work, mails from the smtp2-g19.free.fr (blacklisted)  
> server is not whitelisted :-(
>
> I use MailScanner 4.41.3
>
> What's wrong ?

Whitelisting the domain name here is not the same as whitelisting the  
IP address of the server sending you the mail. What you are  
whitelisting is the sender's email address used on the message being  
sent to you, it is not whitelisting the hostname of the mail server  
sending the message to you. If you want to whitelist the mail server  
sending the message to you, list the IP address of the server (or the  
netblock containing the servers, in any of the common formats).

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