New feature - hostname lookups in rulesets

[Julian Field]

On 01/06/2009 00:08, Eduardo Casarero wrote:
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> 2009/5/31 Julian Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk 
> <mailto: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.
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>     So now you can.
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>     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.
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>     So you can now do rules such as these:
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>     From: host:localhost.localdomain yes
>     From: host:mail.mydomain.com <http://mail.mydomain.com> yes
>     From: host:mailgate*.soton.ac.uk <http://soton.ac.uk> yes
>     From: host:soton.ac.uk <http://soton.ac.uk> yes
>     From: host:ac.uk <http://ac.uk> yes
>     From: host:example.* yes
>     From: host:/\.(de|dk|es)$/ yes
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>     and all sorts of things like that.
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>     I hope you find this useful, particularly those where who have to live
>     in a world of dynamic IP addresses for their machines.
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>     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.
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> This will work with mailwatch SQLWhiteBlaklist custom function 
> (getting regex from sql backend)?
I don't know, sorry. It is another type of entry in a ruleset 
internally, 'h' as opposed to the already existing 'v', 'f', 't' and 'b' 
types.

Jules

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