rules: IP Address in To: expression reports Config Error

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Mon Feb 4 13:40:16 GMT 2008


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Joachim Holzfuss wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was under the impression from reading the examples and README files
> located in the rules directory
> that I can setup a highscore spam policy based
> on a receiving mailserver specified like
>
> To: IP.AD.DR.ESS delete
>
> This works for From: but not for To: or FromOrTo:
> Instead I get in the logs:
> Config Error: Cannot match against  destination IP address
> when resolving configuration option  "highscorespamactions.rule"
>
> Is this intended or not yet needed by someone else?
>   
It's intended. You don't know the IP address you are delivering a 
message to until you have delivered it. So you can't test against the 
delivery IP address.

> Greetings
> Joachim
>
>   

Jules

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