In order to get around this trick, I added a meta test which checked for the
presence of our IP blocks in the received header, if found, do nothing, if
missing, score enough to over-ride the white-list.

Then play cleanup with those using other connectivity.

Frederic Tarasevicius
Internet Information Services, Inc.


Alan Fullmer wrote:
> 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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