MailScanner --lint error

[Julian Field]

Back in about July 2007, I posted a HOWTO which you may find helps you, 
as a lot of it is still quite valid. It had HOWTO in the subject line, 
and will be in the list archive.

On 3/1/09 22:23, Greg J. McGreevy wrote:
> Thanks Julian everyone has been very helpful here.  I do however have some additional questions I need to fine tune the spamassassin/MailScanner to catch more SPAM it does not seem like it is catching very much. everything is installed with defaults any step by step tuning is appreciated. Also I went here http://corebsd.com/node/6 for the Mailwatch install for the Qaurantine release info (which made sense to me) but the entries I added brought me back here with the errors described earlier. I have since removed them.
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> Thanks Again,
> Greg
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> On 3/1/09 16:16, Greg J. McGreevy wrote:
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>> I am getting the following error when I run the test
>> Cannot match against destination IP address
>>      
> Due to the way that email is delivered by a mail server, you don't know
> the exact destination IP address until you're actually in the process of
> delivering the message. So you can't match against a destination IP
> address in a rule. So all rules that say
> To: 123.123.123.123 yes
> or anything similar are impossible to implement. It's not a restriction
> in what MailScanner can do, you really don't know the destination IP
> address until the message has been delivered. By which time it's too late.
>
> Jules
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