rule patterns

[Rick Cooper]

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[mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Glenn
Steen Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 8:36 AM To: MailScanner discussion
Subject: Re: rule patterns

> 2009/12/1 Ralph Bornefeld-Ettmann <ilikeuce at bornefeld-ettmann.de>:
>> Frank Cusack schrieb:
>>> 
>>> OK this is definitely the last question! :)
>>> 
>>> rules/README example patterns:
>>> 
>>>       *@sub.domain.com        # Any user at 1 domain
>>>       *@*.domain.com          # Any user at any sub-domain of
>>> "domain.com" 
>>> 
>>>       host:mail.example.com   # Any hostname
>>>       host:example.com        # Any domain name
>>>       host:mail*.example.com  # Any hostname or domain name with
>>> wildcards 
>>> 
>>> Shouldn't the first host: example say "a single hostname"?  And the 2nd
>>> say "a single domain name"?  Likewise the 3rd example.
>>> 
>>> Is *@domain.com equivalent to host:domain.com?  It would seem so
>>> although since "host:" isn't really defined I'm not 100% sure it means
>>> the part after the "@" in the email address being tested.  (only 99.9%
>>> sure) 
>>> 
>>> But really what I wanted to get to is that bounce.rules has:
>>> 
>>> #From:          yourcustomer.com        yes
>>> 
>>> which doesn't match any of the example patterns in README.  Is
>>> bounce.rules in error?
>>> 
>>> -frank
>> 
>> host means host - quite simple.
>> 
>> From:   host:mail.example.com   yes
>> 
>> reads like this :
>> 
>> If a mail comes from host mail.example.com (no matter what sender domain
>> is used) then hand over "yes" to the related variable.
>> 
>> 
>> From:   mail.example.com        yes
>> From:   *@mail.example.com      yes
>> 
>> read the same
>> 
>> If a mail comes from domain mail.example.com then hand over "yes"
>> 
>> From:   *@example.com   yes
>> 
>> this handles only mails from example.com, the mail.example.com domain
>> has to be handeled separately 
>> 
>> From:   *@*.example.com yes
>> 
>> and this handles mails from any subdomain of example.com but not
>> directly from example.com 
>> 
>> 
>> From:   *@*example.com  yes
>> 
>> this handles mails from example.com and its subdomains but also from
>> anyexample.com, myexample.com, dumbexample.com ......
>> 
>> 
>> HTH
>> 
>> Ralph
>> 
> ... And you shouldn't be using the easily spoofable things above, but
> rather use the IP address of your customers sending MTA!
> And really think hard and long if the bounce thing should be used at
> all;-). 
> 
> Cheers
> --
> -- Glenn

Glenn, didn't you mean to say "Dear God in heaven never use a bounce thing"?

Rick


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