New feature - hostname lookups in rulesets

[Eduardo Casarero]

2009/5/31 Julian Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk>

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> I have just added a new feature which I hope you will find useful.
> It struck me that it has always been really awkward to have to use IP
> addresses in the "From:" lines in rulesets, and wouldn't it be a lot
> easier to be able to use hostnames or domain names, with wildcards, and
> stuff like that.
>
> So now you can.
>
> You just put "host:" at the start of the hostname or domain name (or
> wildcard or regexp or whatever) and it matches it against the hostname
> of the SMTP client that sent the message to MailScanner.
>
> So you can now do rules such as these:
>
> From: host:localhost.localdomain yes
> From: host:mail.mydomain.com yes
> From: host:mailgate*.soton.ac.uk yes
> From: host:soton.ac.uk yes
> From: host:ac.uk yes
> From: host:example.* yes
> From: host:/\.(de|dk|es)$/ yes
>
> and all sorts of things like that.
>
> I hope you find this useful, particularly those where who have to live
> in a world of dynamic IP addresses for their machines.
>
> This will be in the stable release tomorrow, but I don't consider this
> feature itself to be "stable" quite yet, as I only just wrote it.
> However, it shouldn't interfere with anything else.
>

This will work with mailwatch SQLWhiteBlaklist custom function (getting
regex from sql backend)? if so you will have a couple of beer's waiting in
Argentina!

Thanks!



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