Whitelisting rule query

shyam hirurkar shyamph at gmail.com
Wed May 27 14:27:40 IST 2009


Hi Jules,

Thanks a lot I will try and let you know.

Thanks ,
Shyam

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Julian Field
<MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk>wrote:

>
>
> On 27/05/2009 12:26, shyam hirurkar wrote:
>
>> Hi Jules,
>>
>> I was not meant in that way , sincere apology for the use of the short
>> words.
>>
> No problem.
>
>>
>> Thanks a lot for the same. i have one more doubt i want rule in highscore
>> spam action can i use like this
>>
>> From: domain.com <http://domain.com> forward user at domain.com <mailto:
>> user at domain.com> store
>>
> Correct.
>
>> OR is it
>>
>> From:domain.com <http://domain.com> forward user at domain.com <mailto:
>> user at domain.com> and store
>>
> Wrong.
>
> The "and" is only used to separate two conditions in a ruleset line. The
> result of the ruleset is everything that appears after the last condition,
> which in this case should be "forward user at domain.com store".
>
>>
>> Is really and required.
>>
>> basically i want to forward the high score spam to one email id and also
>> store in quarantine.
>>
> Yes, that sounds fine.
>
>>
>>
>> Thanks ,
>> Shyam
>>
>>
>> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Julian Field <
>> MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk <mailto:MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk>> wrote:
>>
>>    Please don't use "R u" instead of "Are you", it's just an abuse of
>>    the English language.
>>    Anyway, that syntax is just fine, you are allowed to combine two
>>    tests with an "and" on the same line.
>>
>>    Cheers,
>>    Jules.
>>
>>
>>    On 27/05/2009 11:53, shyam hirurkar wrote:
>>
>>        Hello,
>>
>>        R u giving in the same line  From: domain and From IP and yes,
>>        Hope this is wrong if not let me knwo i will also use the same
>>        , Also if you give in different line then again you will get
>>        spoof ID as you said earlier.
>>
>>        Shyam
>>
>>        On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Julian Field
>>        <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
>>        <mailto:MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
>>        <mailto:MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
>>        <mailto:MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk>>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>           On 27/05/2009 10:48, Stef Morrell wrote:
>>
>>               Hello,
>>
>>               I'm wanting to whitelist email coming from my office, so it
>>               doesn't get
>>               marked up as spam, in particular when discussing spammy
>>        topics
>>               with
>>               colleagues/clients.
>>
>>               If I simply whitelist *@mydomain.com
>>        <http://mydomain.com> <http://mydomain.com>
>>
>>
>>               then this allows email with spoofed
>>               'from' address throught.
>>
>>               I can't whitelist the mail relay, as there's any number of
>>               domains email
>>               running through it and if one of those users takes it upon
>>               themselves to
>>               throw a spam sandwich at it, I want to catch it and stop it
>>               before the
>>               wide wide world decides to blacklist me.
>>
>>               So, what I hope to be able to do is add a spam whitelisting
>>               rule along
>>               the lines of
>>
>>               From: *@mydomain and From:<IP ADDRESS>
>>
>>               Does this makes sense and is it achieveable?
>>
>>           Yes, and you have even got the syntax right. Just add a
>>        "yes" on
>>           the end of the line and put it in
>>           /etc/MailScanner/rules/spam.whitelist.rules. Then do a "service
>>           MailScanner reload" and it will re-read the configuration, and
>>           away you go.
>>
>>
>>               Regards
>>
>>               Stef
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