Filter by IP

Steve Campbell campbell at cnpapers.com
Wed Sep 19 20:01:17 IST 2012


Are you certain you didn't type ";" instead of ":" in you rule file? It 
sort of indicates that one of your lines needs that ":" in it

steve campbell
On 9/19/2012 2:25 PM, Sampson, Aaron wrote:
>
> I did make sure that the capitalization was the same through it all 
> and that everything was spaced out the same as well, still got the 
> same error message.  Did discover that everything seemed to be working 
> properly with Mail Scanner until I attempted to send out an e-mail 
> from one of the domains that I had listed.  Once that e-mail attempted 
> to go through the system the syntax error appeared.
>
> *From:*mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info 
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] *On Behalf Of 
> *Martin Hepworth
> *Sent:* Wednesday, September 19, 2012 10:47 AM
> *To:* MailScanner discussion
> *Subject:* Re: Filter by IP
>
> have you made sure there no tab's in that ruleset.
> check out the examples in the examples dir and here.
>
> http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=documentation:configuration:rulesets:examples&s=rules
>
> yes you'll need the default entry , try making sure the capitalisasion 
> is consistent with the examples as welll.
>
> To: @domain1.com <http://domain1.com> deliver
> To: @domain2.com <http://domain2.com> deliver
> From: ip.address        store
> FromOrTo: default       deliver
>
> -- 
> Martin Hepworth, CISSP
> Oxford, UK
>
> On 19 September 2012 16:00, Sampson, Aaron <Sampson at p2sol.com 
> <mailto:Sampson at p2sol.com>> wrote:
>
> Alex,
>
> So I tried out your suggestion and put in a a ruleset in the non-spam 
> actions. rules that read
> to: *@domain1.com <http://domain1.com> deliver
> to: *@domain2.com <http://domain2.com> deliver
> from: ip.address        store
> and then when that did not work added
> fromorTo: default       deliver
>
> Still did not work and all e-mails coming into the company were lost 
> (dang it) and I kept getting an error message saying   Syntax error in 
> "header" action in spam actions,
> missing ":" in etc/MailScanner/rules/non.spam.rules
>
> We have checked and rechecked the rule-set pattern to see if we missed 
> something and have tried a few things and nothing has worked so far. 
>  We would like to not have to set up an additional smtp server to take 
> care of this issue so any additional thoughts would be great, or let 
> me know if you need/want any additional information
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info 
> <mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info> 
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info 
> <mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info>] On Behalf Of Alex 
> Neuman
> Sent: Monday, September 17, 2012 12:41 PM
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: Filter by IP
>
> You can probably add the test server's IP to the spam whitelist, then 
> add a "non-spam actions" ruleset that says something like:
>
> To:allowed.domain.com <http://allowed.domain.com> deliver
> To:allowed2.domain.com <http://allowed2.domain.com> deliver
> From:xx.xx.xx.xx store
>
> That way, the first two domains "hit" and "deliver" the e-mails, while 
> anything else from the test server will be "stored" - you could use 
> "delete" but just in case use "store" so you can release them if 
> necessary.
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Sampson, Aaron <Sampson at p2sol.com 
> <mailto:Sampson at p2sol.com>> wrote:
> > I am running Centos 6 with Postfix/mailscanner 4.84.5 with Spam
> > Assassin and Clamd and I have a Test server that I am trying to
> > prevent from e-mailing anyone outside 2 certain domains.  I have been
> > trying to figure out the best way to set this up so that it does not
> > interfere with the production servers or regular e-mails.  But not 
> really clear on the best way to set this up.
> >
> > I thought about trying to put something in whitelist.rules but want to
> > have a clear plan of attack before I try anything to prevent
> > disruption of normal e-mails.
> >
> >
> >
> > Wanting to do something like
> >
> > When From: ip.tst.srv.add           Only Allow to send to: 
> our.domain.com <http://our.domain.com> &
> > this domain.com <http://domain.com> (and block anything not to that 
> domain)
> >
> >
> >
> > Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Aaron Sampson
> >
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> >
> >
> >
> >
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