Re: [EXIM] spam-sender_address

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Author: Pollywog
Date:  
To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [EXIM] spam-sender_address

On 27-Jan-99 Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Pollywog wrote:
>
>> elif
>> "${lookup{${lc:$sender_address}}dbm{/local/mail/block/spam-sender_addres
>> s.d
>> b}\
>>    {spam}}" is spam then

>
>> my spam-sender_address looks like:
>>
>>
>> spammer2456@???
>> anotherspammer@???
>> yetanother@???
>> *@domain.com
>
> That last line is useless as it stands. No $sender_address will ever be
> "*@domain.com". Consequently, it will never be looked up. You have to
> configure Exim to do special things if you want to handle defaults in
> DBM (or any kind of lookup) files.


That is exactly what was happening, the last line was having no effect.

>
> Change "dbm" to "dbm*@". This is explained in section 6.1, after the
> bulleted items.


I will check the docs for that.

thanks

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Andrew

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