I guess essentially what I am trying to do is check the reply to:  because I
am getting a lot of spoofs there, and it whitelists it.

has anyone found a way around this?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matt Kettler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Alan Fullmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, September 01, 2003 1:54 PM
Subject: Re: [SAtalk] plz help? question regarding to from and expressions.


> At 09:05 PM 8/31/03 -0600, Alan Fullmer wrote:
> >
> >I'm trying to learn how to write certain expressions.
> >
> >I've tried several ways to do this, but have come to the conclusion i am
a
> >noob at this.
> >
> >I am trying to write a rule that checks to see if the  Return-Path:
> >=equals= the To:
> >
> >if Return-Path == To
> >
> >If someone could help me out, I'd greatly appreciate it.  No success yet.
> >but am learning :-)
>
> Sorry to say it, but what you want to do is fundamentally not possible in
> an ordinary SpamAssassin rule.
>
> You'd have to edit the code and create an eval test in perl code to do
> that. The old "from and to are same" rule was implemented in code, not as
a
> plain rule.
>
> Spamassassin rules are nothing more than perl regular expression searches.
> As such, they have absolutely no ability to compare arbitrary strings
> between different parts of the message.
>
> Now, being regular expressions you can do some really complicated tests
> against a single part of a message. You can also use meta rules to see if
> two rules are true at the same time. But you can't compare two headers
with
> a normal rule.
>
> The only proper syntax that I know of for a header rule is:
>
> header <symbolic_name> <header to test> =~ <regular expression>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>



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