On Thu, 31 Oct 1996 m.hampson@??? wrote:
> I'd like to do the following to quickly and easily reject mail from
> certain people....
>
> sender_reject_recipients=lsearch;/usr/local/exim/etc/Spammers
>
> Unfortunately I can't 'cos sender_reject_recipients is a
> string_list. Any chance of this being changed...
Actually, the domain parts are compared in exactly the same way as a
domain in a domain-list. I updated the new 0.57 documentation to say
this. However, that doesn't help when you want to put entire addresses
(including local parts) into a file.
Unfortunately, I did what in retrospect appears to have been a silly
thing when I implemented sender_reject. If there is no @ in a string,
it is taken as a domain-only setting. The idea was that you could say
sender_reject = interramp.com
to reject all mail from there. Of course, this just saves you a bit of
typing, since
sender_reject = *@interramp.com
achieves the same effect. The problem is that an entry like
sender_reject = lsearch;/some/file/or/other
will do a match on the domain only, not on the local part. Thus you
can't have a file of complete addresses.
Question: Do you (collectively) think I should make an incompatible
change to this? The new spec would be
. If the string starts lsearch; (etc.) then do a check on the complete
address. If you want the effect of *@ then you have to put something
like
sender_reject = *@lsearch;/thing/thing
. Otherwise as now, where the lack of @ does a match only on the domain.
Alternatively, the lack of @ could be diagnosed as a configuration
error.
Views, please! I would certainly like to make a change, because we could
use this here.
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