Thanks - but I really need the syntax to be used as part of an IF statement because I'm going to do something
other than just reject the sender.
Greg Ward wrote:
> On 30 November 2001, Marc Perkel said:
> > I want to do an if conditional in a filter where I want to determine if
> > "string" is in a file that contains a list of prohibited email address -
> > like this:
> >
> > savebig@*
> > joe@???
> >
> > How do I write that conditional?
>
> If all you want to do is *reject* mail from those senders, you don't
> need a filter. You just need the sender_reject directive. Here's how I
> do it: in exim.conf, I have
>
> # Manual spam-blocking: any address matching a patten listed in
> # /etc/exim/spammers is blocked from sending mail to us.
> sender_reject = /etc/exim/spammers
>
> And /etc/exim/spammers is this:
>
> # See section 7.16 of the Exim spec for rules on the patterns
> # in this file.
> ^chris@.*wafer\.com$
> sales@???
> trafficmagnet.net
> powerhiring.com
> megawebservers.com
> ^FreeEmailSoftware\d*@yahoo\.com
>
> Note that the format of this file is at once simple and powerful. RTFM
> for details.
>
> If you really do want to do this in your filter -- eg. to send a custom
> bounce message or do custom logging -- then I can't help you. You could
> do an lsearch lookup on the file, but then you lose all the nifty
> pattern-matching capabilities of an address-list file.
>
> Greg
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