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Scott Silva wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Alex Neuman van der Hans spake the following on 5/30/2007 10:36 AM:
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<pre wrap="">I'd like to know if, like in:
From: 1.2.3. yes # Whitelist everything that *begins with* 1.2.3. in
its IP Address
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That will test the IP address of the host sending out the SMTP.<br>
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one could:
From: *.blableble.com yes # ... do the same with everything
that reverse-resolves to something.blableble.com
or
From: .blableble.com yes # or this way...
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That will match against the sender address in the message envelope,
nothing to do with the IP address that is sending the SMTP.<br>
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If you want to match against the SMTP client IP address, you have to
use the numeric format in your first example.<br>
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<pre wrap=""><!---->Should work, but will open you up to every spam mail that pretends to come
from that domain. But I think the above will only match sub-domains of
blableble.com, like server1.blableble.com or otherserver.blableble.com
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