Whitelisting rule query

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Wed May 27 18:36:16 IST 2009


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On 27/05/2009 16:35, Stef Morrell wrote:
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>> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf
>> Of Julian Field
>>
>> On 27/05/2009 10:48, Stef Morrell wrote:
>>      
>>> 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.
>>      
> Ah fantastic thanks. For some reason I was under the mistaken impression
> one could only do a
>
> From:Foo and To:Bar Yes
>
> Rather than multiple 'from' conditions.
>
> Is there a maximum number of conditions (not that I can think of an
> application for more than maybe 3-4)?
>    
Yes. 2.
> Could you say
>
> From:Foo or From:Bar
>
> Or is it more appropriate to write two rules?
>    
No, write 2 rules.

Jules

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