Subj : Re: email.can additions
To   : alt.bbs.synchronet
From : Frank Vest
Date : Sun Sep 25 2005 09:38 am

From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet

Digital Man wrote:
>   To: Frank Vest
>   Re: Re: email.can additions
>   By: Frank Vest to alt.bbs.synchronet on Sun Sep 25 2005 12:20 am
> 
>  > >  >  >  > Ok. Let me understand this correctly.
>  > >  >
>  > >  >  >  > I have in my "email.can" file the line "*@optonline.com" <sans qu
>  > >  >  >  > I also have in my "email.can" file the line "*.optonline.com" <sa
>  > >  >
>  > >  >  >  > I just received an email From:someone@optonline.com   Why?
>  > >  >
>  > >  >  > I don't know, I would need more details. Please forward the e-mail t
>  > >  >  > 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
>  > >  > guessing that he is still getting it because if he has both *. and *@ t
>  > >  > 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 
>  > > block e-mail addresses of [anytext]@somedomain.com. If you block
>  > > "*.somedomain.com" it will block e-mail addresses of [anytext].somedomain.
>  > >
>  > > 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?
> 
> No, filters only support one wildcard character be entry.
> 
>  > IE: [anytext]@subdomain.somedomain.com
>  > 
>  > (this can't be that easy) :-D
> 
> No, it's not. You'll need to either filter:
> 
> "*somedomain.com", which has the down-side of also filtering
>                    "anything@notsomedomain.com" :-(
> 
> Or use 2 filters:
> 
> "*@somedomain.com" filtering [anytext]@somedomain.com
> "*.somedomain.com" filtering [anytext].somedomain.com
> 
> E-mail typically comes from user@somedomain.com however, not
> user@host.somedomain.com.

Ok. Next question: Does the filter look at the "From:" or somewhere 
else? IE: Your from line is 
"digital.man@vert.synchro.net.remove-dbq-this" which is obviously faked. 
If I were to filter you, what would I put in the filter?

Thanks,
Frank
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