Subj : Re: email.can additions
To   : alt.bbs.synchronet
From : Frank Vest
Date : Sun Sep 25 2005 12:20 am

From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet

Digital Man wrote:
>   To: Time Warrior
>   Re: Re: email.can additions
>   By: Time Warrior to Digital Man on Sat Sep 24 2005 09:47 am
> 
>  >  >  > Ok. Let me understand this correctly.
>  > 
>  >  >  > I have in my "email.can" file the line "*@optonline.com" <sans quotes>
>  >  >  > I also have in my "email.can" file the line "*.optonline.com" <sans qu
>  > 
>  >  >  > I just received an email From:someone@optonline.com   Why?
>  > 
>  >  > I don't know, I would need more details. Please forward the e-mail to me 
>  >  > I'll take a look at it.
>  > 
>  > Maybe because you said *. *allows* when you corrected my error when I
>  > apparently misunderstood you and that *@ is disallow and *. is allow. I am
>  > guessing that he is still getting it because if he has both *. and *@ that i
>  > allows it anyways.
>  > 
>  > Thats my best guess. Please feel free to let me know if I am still
>  > misunderstanding you.
> 
> Yeah, you're still misunderstanding. If you block "*@somedomain.com" that will
> block e-mail addresses of [anytext]@somedomain.com. If you block
> "*.somedomain.com" it will block e-mail addresses of [anytext].somedomain.com.
> 
> Notice, I didn't use the word "allow". :-)

I just gotta ask this (glutton that I am). :-)

*@*.somedomain.com

would block all sub domains of somedomain.com right?
IE: [anytext]@subdomain.somedomain.com

(this can't be that easy) :-D

Thanks,
Frank
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