Subj : Re: email.can additions
To   : Digital Man
From : Time Warrior
Date : Fri Sep 23 2005 11:37 am

From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet

  To: Digital Man
  Re: Re: email.can additions
  By: Digital Man to Time Warrior on Fri Sep 23 2005 04:00 am

 >  >  >  > I would like to know/understand how the filter works. I still recei
 >  >  >  > spam messages from "@optonline.com" even though the domain is in th
 >  >  >  > email.can file. :(

 >  >  > You need to specify "*@optonline.com" if you wish to filter all e-mail
 >  >  > addresses from that domain.

 >  > I use *.domain.com and this "appears" to work also.

 > Probably not as you intended. If "*.domain.com" is in your host.can file, fo
 > example, it would disallow connections from "somehost.domain.com", but would
 > *allow* connections from "domain.com". If you "*.domain.com" is in your
 > email.can file, for example, it would disallow e-mail messages from
 > "someuser@somehost.domain.com", but would *allow* e-mail from
 > "someuser@domain.com".

OK cool most of my entries should be fine then.

 >  >  > Personally, I think filtering *strictly* on SMTP server addresses, mai
 >  >  > envelopes, or mail header content is not very effective. The body of t
 >  >  > message must be included in the filtering process for it to be truly e
 >  >  > and this is were utilities like POPfile come into play.

 >  > Will this ever be a Synchronet feature?

 > Likely. Probably in form of a external mail processor script.

Cool deal.

 >  > Sounds interesting.

 > The hooks are already there for it. In the mean-time, there's POPfile.

Hooks into POPfile via Synchronet, i'm presuming.

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